grains at a time which was Administred once or twice a week according as the Exigency required 7. But whereas the Epilepsy fell in a Scorbutick habit of Body Antiscorbuticks were Essential to this Cure without which it could not be well performed 8. Take spring water twenty pound Guajacum sarsa sarsafras of each half a pound boyl all together to the Consumption of a third Coriander-seed Rocket-seeds Mustard-seed of each three ounces put them in just at the last boyling let the Liquor stand till it is almost cold then strain and add these following things Juniper-berries bruised half a pound juyce of Scurvy-grass Brook-lime and Water-Cresses of each ten ounces mix them together and with a pint of Ale-yest work them all up and having done working let it be put up into Bottles as you did the diet in the former section 9. The constant taking hereof will alter the habit of the Body and by degrees take away the Scurvy and be the cause of the rooting out of the other Diseases also 10. For if an Epilepsy comes upon a Scorbutick habit it is Impossible it should be cured till the evill habit be clearly removed 11. He also drank now and then in his Broth a few drops of Tincture of Antimony which has an Essential power against this Disease 12. Lastly over the futures of the Head I caused to be applyed Franciscus Valesius his Epileptick plaster and in a short time he became well this Caution is alwayes to be obsered not only in the Scurvy but in all other Diseases concomitant with the Epilepsy that those things good against those Diseases be always mixed with Antepilepticks X. An Epilepsy in young Woman from a disaffection of the Stomach 1. This Disease had long layn hid or secret nor did it make it self manifest till it had got singular advantages on the Animal spirits afterwards it assaulted the young Woman after an exceeding violent manner and with so great a pain and weakness of the Stomach that she her self nor the standers by thought she would live 2. Somtimes she was so sick as to Vomit a great deal of green Choler and somtimes a great deal of tough viscous and yellow Flegm after which she would be well for several days as if she ailed nothing 3. From whence it appeared that the Cause was really lodged in the Stomach upon her next complaining I provided for her the following Dose Take Infusion of Crocus Metallorum six drams salt of Vitriol two scruples mix them and give it her warm this gave her eight or nine several easy Vomits 4. This vomit I repeated the fourth day following after which I gave her several specificks as the Tinctura of Luna spirit of Harts-horn and salt of Harts-horn spirit of Sal Armoniack and such like all which were of a singular good Use for the pain of the Stomach 5. After these things were done her Courses came down nor were they stoped any more 6. To her feet I applyed Blisters which made a good Revulsion of the matter and I now and than caused her to take a Glass of spiced wine upon any Illness or faintness of the spirits cheifly that of Pope Adrian whereby the weakned Nerves are restrained to their former strength 7. Her diet was that common to the houshold nor could a little Irregular diet hurt her by Reason she stayd not long upon it 8. Nor can indeed change of diet create any evil habit of Body nothing can do that unless it has been long used because the Stomuch being nourished and cherished by things which it likes poduces a good and laudable Chyle and a good Chyle a good Blood whereby health of Body is attained at last 9. This young Gentlewoman by looking upon another wishly at the time of her falling down caused her also as it was thought to fall into the same Disease and some think it is done by the Effluvia of the Eyes wherein the Venom of the Disease is secretly conveyed 10. But whether it did or not I will not here determine though it is the absolute opinion of many great Phylosophers and some Circumstances are so strange that a man can scarcely misbelieve it without doing a great deal of violence to his Reason and Understanding 11. Much such an Example does Platerus give in his observations which thing is well worth the Considering XI A simple Epilepsy Originally in the Brain 1. A Youth fifteen years of Age had been more than six or seven years obnoxious to an Epilepsy he was of a fresh colour sanguine Complexion great high spirit and of a singular Wit and Ingenuity 2. The disease crept upon him by little and little the fits being very gentle at first afterwards more Extream when they had held him about two years time they left him for a year of their own accord without Physick but by being accidentally frighted after an Interval of about fifteen months space they afflicted him again with an exceeding deal of violence 3. The youth was sensible of the fit before it came and would Cry out Oh 't is now a coming when he was come to himself again he would declare how its approach was 4. First he felt a lightness and swiming in his Head which made all things seem as if they turnd round presently after his Head would be dull and heavy and he would suddenly be taken with a Convulsion as though his Neck and Soulders would be drawn together whereupon he immediately fell with violence foaming mightily at the mouth 5. I beheld him in several of these fits but that which is more Admirable is that these fits should visit him four or five times in a week and somtimes two or three times a day and then all of a sudden so to leave him that he should be without them for a month or six weeks together 6. For which space of time he would seem to be perfectly well being as merry and brisk as if he had never ailed any thing and then of a sudden without any known or praevious Cause to fall into the same again with all the force and vehemence immaginable 7. The reason of this Phenomenon I might give here but I design to do it in another place to which I shall refer you however the method of the Cure and by what I perform'd it was as follows 8. In the first place I caused Blisters to be laid to the soles of the Feet because they universally and also in a special manner derive from the Head 9. His head being shaved was morning and evening anointed with this following Balsam Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression two ounces Liquid storax Chimical Oyls of Amber Rosemary and sweet Marjoram of each two drams Chimical oyls of Lavender and Sage of each one dram mix and make a Balsam for the Head with which it was anointed morning and evening for near half an hour together before hot Embers 10. After which was applyed over the whole Head the Epileptick Emplaster of Franciscus
nature would contribute something as to adding strength to it 7. Now to effect that intention We applyed that most admirable Emplaster of Mynsicht viz. his Diagalbano Crocatum a Medicament never sufficiently to be commended by the application whereof our feeble Patient in two or three months time was perfectly restored to my great Credit and the exceeding satisfaction of his indulgent Parents II. A Contracture of the Arm in an old Water-man in Southwark 1. This old Man aged about seventy for the space of seven or eight year had lost the use of his left Arm by reason of a Contracture so that he could not in any wise attend his Calling the poor old Man desired my help which I granted and performed the Cure as followeth 2. First I bathed the Contracture very well with the Spirit of Aniseeds then I caused it to be anointed with Oleum Nervinum after which I applyed Emplastrum de minio simplex made with Vinegar and Oyl without Wax it was boyled and taken off whilst it was red a little before it was going to turn black 3. In this Cloths was dipt and applyed to his Arm and about six or seven of these plasters or Sear-cloths performed the Cure 4. The poor old Man was able to give me nothing for my Cure but only gave me of his own free will a bottle of Sack However not long after as a further token of his graâ—â—ful spirit he helped me to a better Patient from whom I Received about fifteen or sixteen pound III. A Contraction in the left Ham in a certain Virgin 1. It was occasioned through a fall and a hurt in the part or parts adjacent being ill cured the Contracture was new but by reason the joint was great as also the parts contracted I was the more dubious of the Cure however being encouraged by the Friends of the party affected 2. I applyed the following things with success beyond Imagination first I caused the part affected to be very well bathed with the Spirit of Aniseeds then I anointed it very well with the expressed Oyl of Mace after which we applied for forty days together or more the Cataplasmum de stercore humano the praeparation of which you may see in our Doron lib. 3. cap. 7. sect 9. 3. The Cure succeeded much contrary to my expectation For the Patient could walk without Crutches or so much as halting 4. The like Cure I performed in a Child using only the same Medicaments IV. A Contracture in the Ham with a lameness of both the Ankles 1. This being a Youth about fifteen or fixteen years of age had this disaffection upon him by reason of a fall first I bathed all the weakned and disaffected parts with the Spirit of Aniseeds afterwards with the Powers of Amber 2. Immediately after I anointed with Oyl of Mace by expression after which I applied Emplastrum diasulphuris Rulandi by which my Patient seemed to be cured save only a weakness remained upon the parts lately disaffected 3. After the application of the Emplaster about eight or nine weeks it being renewed once in three days I caused the said weakned parts to be bathed with a strong tincture of Myrrh made with the best rectifyed spirit of Wine whereby the sick in a short time became perfectly well V. A Contraction Incurable 1. A young Man about seventeen or eighteen years of age was taken with the Sciatica by which he was vehemently afflicted this Disease either by nature or the Artifice of Empericks degenerated and the matter was translated into an Apostem on the outside of the Thigh which being opened a great quantity of corruption came out 2. But by the ill-management of the cure or unskillfulness of the Chyrurgion the Apostem fistulated and made Coney-borroughs as it were thorugh the whole Thigh which afterwards by another hand was Cut up and the bone laid open to be scaled being black and corrupted in many places 3. After two years time the Patient was in a sort cured leaving only a great Contraction of the Ham and one runing Fistula-sore which was no great trouble to him yet this evill Effect it had that thereby the whole Humidum Radicale was drained away the sick dying in a miserable Consumption 4. In his Life-time almost a thousand things were applyed to restore the contracted Hand but all in vain 5. Being dead I was desirous to see the contracted Tendon which being laid open and freed from the rest of the flesh and Vessels it had contracted not a Gristley but a kind of Boney hardness to the great Admiration of the Spectators this hardness by degrees decreased till it left the Nerve in its own natural state VI. A Contraction of the Fingers cured by a Woman Emperick 1. She first anointed the contracted parts with the Oyl of Cammomil which being don for two or three days she caused the Patient to hold her Hands in a hot Cows-Paunch for an hour or two which was five or six several times repeated 2. In the Intervalls of which and afterwards she only applyed this following Cataplasm Take Oleum Nervinum one ounce Oyl of Cammomil Oyl of Euphorbium of each half an ounce fresh Cow-dung half a pound mix them well together and apply them to the part affected 3. By the use of these meanes the Patient was in about five or six weeks restored again to perfect health VII A Contraction of the In-step with a scrophulous Tumor 1. This was supposed at first to come through a strain but whatever the cause there was a great flux of ill-digested humors to the part afflicted whereby followed a Contraction of the In-step with a great Tumor thereof and in the Ankle and indeed a swelling of the whole Foot Insomuch that the Patient a Youth about ten or eleven years of age could not go and was forced to keep his bed for many weeks together 2. Many things were used to resolve the Tumor and great Discussives were applied but all in vain at length we applied things to ripen it and to bring it to a Suppuration which in convenient time was done 3. The Tumor ran at first a great deal of thin matter afterwards the Sanies run more thick being broke we applied this following Cataplasm 4 Take Venice Turpentine two ounces Oyl of Roses one ounce Yolks of Eggs number two with Bean-Meal a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm which apply 5. The Tumor seemed cavernous or hollow whereupon we cast thereinto with a Syringe this following Injection Take plantain-Water a pint Salt of Vitriol two drams Saccharum Saturni half a dram Tincture of Aloes made of white Wine one ounce and half Infusion of Crocus mutallorum Spirit of Wine of each two ounces mix and make an Injection to be cast in warm twice a day 6. The Tumor Lameness and Sore continued more than a year upon him Insomuch that the Friends of the Person were advised by several Chyrurgions to have it laid open 7. But by reason of the
removed by taking inwardly this mixture and also holding some of it for a little while in the Mouth Take Spirit of Angelica the greater composition Aqua Vitae Matthioli of each three ounces Powers of Rosemary one ounce and half mix them together Dose two drams to half an ounce in Spirit of black Cherries but she held it in her Mouth without mixture somtimes for a quarter of an hour together 14. A Youth of about fourteen or fifteen years of age was so taken also viz. with a Palsy and a Lethargick Distemper the Lethargy would somtimes seem to be off yet then he remained as it were foolish and void of his reason and again in a day or two the Lethargy would return we cured him in about four Months time by the Method first above prescribed in this present Section and with the removal of his Distemper his Understanding was also restored to him as perfect as formerly XIX A Palsy in a Gentlewoman of about six and thirty years of age 1. This Gentlewoman being seized with a great Cold in her lying-in was presently taken lame and from thence became paralytick in all her extream Parts so that she wholly lost the use of her Limbs her Courses also were so stopt upon her that they could not be produced for above fifteen Months and her Belly swelled as if she had had a Dropsy or rather been with Child her Stomach likewise was impaired so that she scarcely eat any thing but what came up again and she complained of a vehement grinding Pain in her Bowels or Womb and in the Reins of her Back 2. In this distress she applyed her self to several persons for remedy she took advise of her Midwife and then of another Woman who pretended to do wonders but all to no purpose for she daily grew worse and worse These failing she sent for a Physician who tampred with her for six or seven weeks with as little success at length two or three other Gentlemen were called to consult withall but yet notwithstanding all their endeavours the event answered not nor indeed could they tell what their sick Patient ailed but one was of one opinion and the other of another however the Paralysis was evident 3. Thus about forteen or fifteen months was elapsed without remedy and the poor Gentlewoman remained without hopes for that such vast quantities and numbers of things had been so long tryed in vain but the wonder when enquired into soon ceased for examining the Apothecaries file I found such poor low spirited and almost insipid things to be inwardly ministred and such gross greasy and abominablâ— nauseous fooleries outwardly applyed that I rather began to wonder she was no worse I imputed the misery she went through and the long hopeless Cure to the ignorance of her Physicians who had for so long time attended her which although it was with small advantage or rather hurt to her the distressed Patient yet it was with a singular advantage and profit to themselves who received all their Mony and Fees not for doing nothing at all but rather for doing mischief by bringing this mirable creature under the terrour of an Incurable Disease 4. After a serious enquiry into the nature of her Distemper it sufficiently appeared that taking cold was the remote cause of all her illness And that the obstruction of her Terms very much contributed to the augmentation of her Disease That her Disease was become stubborn and habitual and that without powerful remedies and such as might be long taken so as to alter the universal habit no hope of cure could be expected 5. In order to this design I first prescribed this following Decoction to be taken as her constant and ordinary drink save at meals I permitted her to drink a glass of Hippocras Take mealy Sarsaparilla two pound Juniper-berries well bruised a pound infuse the sarsa forty eight hours in warm Water sixteen quarts then boyl it away till the half be consumed after which add the berries and boyl again till two quarts more is wasted this don put thereto white Wine two quarts and boyl again a walm or two then take it off cool and strain it and being settled decant and dulcifie it to the liking of the sick with double refined sugar and bottle it up for use 6. This was all the Drink she drank during her whole Cure and she continued the use of it for nine or ten months it is almost incredible what good she found by it and that in a very short space so that she confest all the grinding Pains in her Bowells Womb and Reins were perfectly removed and that in about three weeks time but at time of drinking thereof she for the most part dropt into each draught fifteen twenty or twenty five drops of the Powers of Caraways by the constant drinking of this Liquor her Courses also began to appear though but faintly 7. Now the more powerfully to provoke them I caused her to take every Night going to bed for about a weeks space before the time they used to flow the Angelick Pills of Grulingius to the quantity of two scruples which excellently purged her and that without Pain and according to our expectations they began to flow about the usual time admirably well both in quantity and colour by which this poor Gentlewoman found very much relief and to accustom them to the due time of their flux I caused her for two or three months one after another to take for four or five days before hand the said Angelick Pills so that at length they were again reduced to their ordinary course 8. By this time we began to be in hopes of a Cure and the Patient herself also encouraged us in Our undertaking for now the great tumor of her Belly was abated and gon and she began to eat her Food indifferently well but this is to be understood whilst all this was doing having first cleansed her whole Body from the filthy greasy and nauseous Oyls and Oyntments which they had applyed to her by a proper bath made of Juniper-berries and spring-water with venice soap I caused the whole region of the Abdomen to be Morning and Evening bathed with the Powers of Aniseeds somtimes alone and somtimes mixed with Powers of Fennel-seeds 9. Moreover as to the Paralysis we were not unmindful to administer proper things which were given her at three or four distinct times of the day In the Morning she took this following mixture Take Aquae Coelesti spirit of Castoreum of each one ounce Powers of Vipers twenty or twenty five drops choice Hippocras two ounces mix them for a draught This warmed her all over and heat the whole Genus Nervosum as if she had been by a good fire yet as I have formerly said without the least danger of putting her into a Feaver 10. About an hour before Dinner she took this Take Powers of Cinnamon thirty drops spirit of Angelica the greater composition spirit of
the nights sleep had brought to the head a new supplement of morbifick matter the like Fit returned in the morning which perhaps as the sleep had been shorter or longer was moved now within the Brain and near the nervous origine Willis de Convulsivis Chap. 5. Obs 5. XLIV A Vertigo in an Ancient Woman 1. A vertuous woman aged 67 yet of a fresh and florid Countenance fat in Body when she had been for some while obnoxious at first to a swelling of the Face and very grievious Fits of the Head-ach the Winter being cold she fell into a very troublesom Vertigo which was accompanied with a trembling of the heart a fainting away of the Spirits and a frequent Inclination and striving to Vomit being lay'd on her Bed she was afflicted with a grievous Giddiness or swimming of the head with swooning and Symptomatick Vomiting if at any time she opened her Eyes or turn'd her from one side to another 2. Having visited this woman I conjectur'd That the Cause of her sickness was the Convulsive matter translated from the exteriour Region of the Head to the most inward Recesses of the Encephalon by whose Inspiration or heterogeneous Copula the animal spirits being touched while they leaped forth inordinately towards the Brain they excited the vertiginous distemper 3. And while they rushed suddenly upon the heads of the Nerves the Scotomy disorder of the Praecordia and endeavoring to vomit a large Vesicatory or blistering Plaster being applyed to the nape of the Neck and behind her Ears Clysters daily administred as also the use of the spirits of harts-horn frequently and of a Cephalick Julap she recovered within a few days Willis de Convulsivis Cap. 5. Obs 3. XLV A Vertigo with a Convulsion 1. A noted person 34 years old being for a long time subject to a Cough with great and thick spitting having the pores of his skin very open he was wont to sweat continually and every night to be wet with it 2. About the beginning of the spring he perceived those usual Evacuations to happen more sparingly In the interim he complain'd of the fulness of his hands and feet and as it were a certain swelling or puffing up so that he feared a Dropsie coming upon him besides he was afflicted in his head with a Giddiness and frequent Vertigo 3. This Evil increasing light Contractions and sudden Convulsions were ordinarily excited about his lips and other parts of the mouth and face also presently after the morbifick matter flowing upon the beginnings of the wandring pair and intercostal Nerves he was troubled with a trembling and leaping of the heart and with a frequent faintness of the vital spirits as if a Leipothemy or swooning was fallen upon him 4. I know that there are not a few who ascribe these Convulsive Passions which grievously infest and afflict the Precordia to the Vapours arising from the spleen but it seems much more correspondent to Reason to deduce them from the Convulsive matter laid up in the Brain and rushing upon the beginnings of the Nerves because a translation of some Excrements from some other parts to the head goes before 5. And that it is so laid up within the Compass of the Encephalon the almost vertiginous Disease and the Convulsions of the parts of the Mouth and Face testifies it plainly 6. Wherefore I thought good to prescribe to this man Remedies according to the Method hereafter shewn I could here propose many Observations of this Nature in whom the Morbifick matter subsisting near the beginnings of the Nerves stir up light Spasms or Convulsions only of the Viscera or members with a Vertigo because a portion of this matter descending from the Head enters more deeply the Pipes of the Nerves and so strows the tinder or enkindling of the Explosive seed as it were Gunpowder about their middle and ultimate Processes and enfoldings Willis de Convul Chap. 5. Obs 3. XLVI A Vertigo with Coruscation of the spirits 1. A certain Parson sixty years of age was afflicted about three months with a light Vertigo and a frequent coruscation of the Spirits in the forepart of the Head 2. At length the Disease increasing and waxing heavier he became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as it were sometimes dead in so much that when he was walking he often fell down flat on the ground 3. As to the Cure I followed this Method First I prescribed Phlebotomy with light Catharticks at certain intervals to be repeated as also Electuaries and Mixtures such as I have before mentioned Vesicatories and other Administrations were not neglected 4. About a fortnight after perceiving no relief to the person by these Medicines I exhibited a Vomit of the Salt of Vitriol and the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum by taking of which having ten easy Vomits he grew immediately well 5. And having applyed to him alterative Cephalicks for about a fortnight he perfectly recovered and from that time for the space of six years after he took every Spring and Fall a Vomit with some other Medicines Willis Exercitationes Patholog Cap. 7. Obs 1. XLVII A Vertigo in an ancient man 1. A certain Gentleman about 66. years of age being for a long time obnoxious to a light Vertigo which was wont to be sometimes but occasionally excited became at length grieviously afflicted with this Distemper in so much that he grew very oblivious and forgetful 2. After he had been sick about three Weeks I went to Visit him finding him vastly altered and the Vigour of his Ey-sight and Countenance sensibly decay'd about the Evening he was Feaverish and his Pulse did beat high and swift 3. Therefore I commanded a little Blood to be taken out of his Arm and 6 or 7 daies after I ordered some blood to be drawn out of the Hemorrhoidal Veines then Vesicatories to be applyed to his Neck and afterwards behind his Eares I was careful also that Cauteries should be applyed for making two large Issues between the Shoulder-blades and that he dayly took inwardly Cephalick Medicines of every kind at Physical hours 4. In the space of a Month he began to recover and to walk abroad and to attend his domestick and other affairs 5. But having contracted a Cold by going abroad in the beginning of Winter he fell into a Feaver attended with a greater Perturbation of the Spirits and towards the evening he doted every day in so much that he knew not what he spoke and acted 6. Howbeit within 7 or 8 daies after by letting Blood and a thin Diet his Feaver vanished and the affection and disposition of the Brain was altered from its former state For the Vertigo being ceased he became forgetful and Paralytick in the whole right Side 7. Being often asked concerning the Condition of his Head as whether it was clear and lightsom or whether it was free from a Scotomie and confused Phantasms He answered It was never better with him as to these things for he knew his own Infirmity his
had been of many years standing and continual so instead of giving now and than a Dose of violent Pills it had been much better to have Instituted a gentle and constant Purging Diet which he might have taken if occasion had been for an hundred days together and such an one as follows I instituted him 11. Take new Ale four or five gallons put into it these following things Sena fourteen ounces Polypody Juniper-berries well bruised Coriander-seed Zedoary all of them well bruised of each half a pound dryed Rosemary Betony Sage Stoechas of each four ounces Bay-berries hull'd and grossly bruised Sal Prunella of each two ounces put them into a Bag with a stone in it to make it sink and let them Work up with the Ale after four or five days he drank of it every Morning a little draught and accordingly encreased or diminished the quantity as he found it to Purge him 12. This quantity being taken I Caused him to repeat it again adding to the former Ingredients these Scurvy-grass Brooklime Water-cresses Tarragon of each three handfuls all bruised Mustard-seed bruised Horse-radish root Rocket-seed of each two handfuls and half he continued the taking of this last quantity till it was all spent which Purging very gently and pleasingly carried off the Morbifick matter and thoroughly cleansed his whole Body 13. But that we might not seem only to remove the Conjoyned Cause by Purging only I Caused him to take the following Dose to Sweat upon Take choice Bezoar Mineral twelve grains Oriental Bezoar ten grains Volatile Salts of Amber and Hartshorn of each eight grains Viper Pouder a scruple mix them together with half a dram of Mithridate and give it the Sick to Swallow for a Dose to provoke Sweat drinking after it a little choice Canary mixed with six drams of Treacle Water being in his Bed and well covered this Caused him to Sweat very powerfully and from whence he Confessed he had wonderful relief 14. As to Topicks his Stomach Head and Temples was anointed with this following Balsam Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one ounce Opo-balsamum half an ounce distilled Oyl of Nutmegs of Rosemary of sweet Marjoram and of Sassafras of each one dram mix and anoint therewith Morning and Evening keeping those parts warm 15. The extream parts either benummed after the manner of a Palsy or pained in the Joynts resembling a Gout I Caused every Morning and Evening to be anointed with the following Medicament Take Powers of Amber six ounces choice Camphir one ounce dissolve it therein and herewith Bath well the afflicted parts 't is not to be imagined what sudden and great relief he received therefrom 16. For in the extremity of his Pain the said Pain would vanish in a Moment and although Lame he would be able to go very well in two or three days time 17. Now 't is to be observed that during the time of his Purging I ordered him to Swallow whole every Night going to bed twenty five or thirty grains of choice white Olibanum or Mastich sometimes the one sometimes the other with about ten grains of pure white Ginger cut into very small bits 18. The time of Purging being wholly over viz. so long as he was drinking the two former quantities of Diet I caused him to take every Morning fasting half an ounce of this following Electuary whereby the Stomach Head Brain and Animal Spirits were mightily relieved Comforted and Strengthened 19. Take the soft or Melligenous extract of Juniper-berries half a pound Viper pouder Pouder of Zedoary of Nutmegs of each one ounce and half Pouder of white Ginger of Cloves of each half an ounce Camphir a dram Venice Treacle three ounces extracts of Virginian Snake-root and Contra yerva of each two ounces mix them for a Stomachical and Cephalick Antidote This is very good against all sorts of salt and sharp Catarrhs moisture of the Brain coldness and weakness of the Stomach and Paralitick and Arthritick Distempers 20. At Night going to Bed he took two three or four grains of my Laudanum the use of these two last Medicines he constantly took Morning and Night for five or six Weeks together by the use whereof he became perfectly Restored and was free from all the said disaffections for more then seven years afterwards XII A Catarrh in a Gentlewoman accompaned with Hysterick fits and an exceeding Pain on her left side supposed an affection of the Spleen 1. This Gentlewoman being about thirty years of Age had been obnoxious to a Catarrh almost from a Child with swellings in her Throat and Almonds of the Ears soreness and difficulty of swallowing but of late to wit for four or five years last pass the Catarrh was almost Continual and she had with it a great dejection of Spirit 2. She would sight often and complain of a great pain in her left Side and many times would be overtaken or seised with fits of the Mother the Cause thereof she apprehended to be from an unnatural Marrage being allied to a man extreamly wicked almost in all senses 3. She was a very Comely Lady and brought with her a great Fortune but was almost at first slighted and abused by her Husband whence arose a great discontent of mind which seising and Continuing long upon her begat a kind of Melancholy habit 4. Not long after she was as she thought afflicted with the Pain of the Spleen which she Conceived was encreased by taking an extream Cold however a Pain she had in her left Side and that almost continually her Catarrh was almost always the same causing her constantly to spit and very much afflicting her in the Night 5. The begining of this Discontent brought also upon her those Hysterick fits the Cause of which is a preternatural Convulsion of the Nerves of the Mesentery and Middriff or Diaphragma whereby that exceeding great rising up into the Breast not much unlike a Ball or Globe is made 6. And I am the more Confirmed in this opinion That these Fitts are often Caused as aforesaid and not always simply from the Womb from that singular observation of Dr. Willis who beheld the same in a Man where the old supposed Cause was impossible to be Suspected and in the time of my practise I have seen two such lâ—ke examples which has very much confirm'd me in this Judgment not that I will totally deny any Cause to be Inherent in the Womb in all persons 7. For I doubt not but where there are great Obstructions of the Matrix and that part abounds with many stinking and noysom humours it being as it were the very sink of a Womans Body that Vapours may be Emitted from thence and that it may also have a share in the Cause of Hysterick Paroxisms 8. The original Cause of the Catarrh I attribute to be in part from a Discrasy of the Blood and in part from a natural weakness of the Brain whereby it is made more apt to Receive the Recrements of the second
Palsey was without pain only with a little numbness joyned with a trembling and weakness of the parts it continued upon her to her dying-day nor by the greatest help of Art could she meet with any the least benefit much less a Cure 7. In this person the Morbifick matter first afflicted the Brain whence came the Epilepsy but by a translation of the said matter to the Original of the Nerves and thereby to their various Branchings the Disease was changed from a Falling-sickness to a Palsey 8. This Woman after that the Epileptick Fits had left her and the Palsy had siezed her by I know not whose advice began to take Opiates which she continued the use of for some years and as she conceived with a manifold advantage to her self 9. She always said she found her self better after the taking of the Opiate than before and conceived it added very much strength to her for that after she had been used to it a while if she pretermitted for one night the taking thereof she should be the next day sick heavy and unpleasant and stomachless as to her Food 10. After the taking of the Opiate for a year or somewhat better she came to a good use of one of her Hands and she could also a little use the other which benefit no body could beat her out of but that she received it from the assiduous taking of the Opiate 11. And did verily believe that had not her great Age been an obstacle in the way that very Medicament alone would have restored her to her perfect Health such was her opinion and for any thing that I know there might be somewhat of Truth in it 12. But however the consideration of this Observation makes me believe that there is yet a greater excellency and vertue in Opiates than the World is awar of and I doubt not but some experiments of this kind might more confirm this Judgment 13. I remember Roger Dickson a Chyrurgian in Thames-street told me that he had once a Paralytick Patient to whom he gave upon occasion a Dose of an Opiate for rests sake after which his Patient would never let him rest without some few doses of it by her which she took for six or eight months together and thereby became Cured of a Palsy which had afflicted her many years XVII The Falling-sickness in a middle aged Woman proceeding from Melancholy 1. A Gentlewoman about forty years of Age having had for a long time a great deal of discontent upon her Spirit was extreamly troubled with Melancholy and to that degree afflicted with this pernitious humor that she has confessed that she had many times tempted to make away her self but the Cause or Reason of this trouble she would never reveal to any one 2. Some thought it to be unlawful Love and some thought it to be Discontent others some private grudge between her and her Husband but those that had been her associates and familiar acquaintances for many years knew the contrary but guessed it to be from other things 3. Some thought it to be a discontented Mind because she could not attain that Glory Pleasure Fortune and such like in the World as her equals had arrived to or that her ambitious Spirit might aspire after although she then lived happily genteely and free from any care trouble or turmoil 4. But what ever the true original of her Melancholy was I could never learn nor hear her confess this Melancholy discontented Condition so far increased upon her as to render her very unhappy in her person made her very thin and lean brought upon her great weakness so that sometimes she would Faint or Swoon away 5. Afterwards as the evil increased these fits degenerated and from Fainting and Swooning Fits she became affected with other Fits not much unlike the Mother 6. After these had afflicted her for about four or five months they still augmenting their force became at length Epileptical in so much that when or wheresoever they siezed her she fell down with a great Crying out and a froath and foaming at the Mouth 7. She had been under a Knights hands reputed a great Physician by whose advice and directions her Husband said he had spent two hundred pounds but without the least amendment he rather thought she grew worse and worse 8. When I understood what was done I partly conceived the cause of the miscarriage for whatsoever Antepileptick Specificks he might give her he gave her nothing which might repress these Hypochondriack disaffections and distempers of the Womb. 9. Moreover her Courses had been preternaturally stopt for about two years together during all which time she had a very large flux of the Whites which was a great trouble and weakning to her 10. I began in the first place to give her things that might evacuate the Melancholy humor among which was an Infusion of Rhubarb and Sena in white Wine with black Myrobalans and a small proportion of Castoreum with this I gently purged her for many days together 11. In the next place I provided an Injection for the Womb which was thus made Take Plantan water three quarts Infusion of Crocus Metallorum six ounces spirit of Wine eight ounces fine Aloes in pouder half an ounce or something more Roch Alum Salt of Vitriol of each three drams Saccharum Saturni two drams juyce of Liquorice one dram sal prunellae six drams mix dissolve decant the clear from the faeces filter it through brown Paper and keep it for use 12. With this I caused the Womb to be Syringed three or four times a day and somtimes oftner by the use of which Medicine and the internal means afore-mentioned I perfectly removed and cured her of this great flux of the Whites at which the Woman was very much pleased and became much more chearful than before 13. And because through the oppression of the Melancholy humor her Spirits had been much cast down I caused her to take the following things Take juyce of Alkermes six ounces choice Canary eight ounces blood red Tincture of Castoreum five ounces spirit of Hartshorn two ounces Salt of Mans Skull three drams white sugar candy in fine pouder half a pound mix all well together dissolve it over a gentle fire and keep it for use 14. Of this she took two large spoonfuls every Morning fasting drinking immediately after the same about an ounce or somewhat more of the best Angelica Water by the constant use of this Medicament she confessed her self to be so much cheared and revived so that she was in great hopes she should once again be well 15. Now although these Medicines had not done much as to the Epilepsy for indeed they were not levelled against it yet they had much abated the vehemency of her fits and also had altered the times of their coming so that whereas she had used to have them sometimes two or three times a Week or oftner she had them not now once a Week and sometimes
powerful remedy if to this pouder you add pouder of Castoreum it not only powerfully roots out the Epilepsy but the Apoplexy also 18. Take Lavender-water an ounce and half Water of the Tile-tree five ounces mix them it Cures the Falling-sickness in Infants the Oyl of Lavender also given a few drops at a time is very powerful and being rubb'd upon the Hands and smell'd to notably comforts the Nerves and Brain 19. Take Orrice-root a dram and half Peony-root half a dram make a Decoction in Water which sweeten in Honey for Children Or Take Orrice in Pouder half a dram Peony roots in pouder a scruple Saffron in pouder half a scruple sugar two drams mix them for Children 20. The Pouder of the Root of Master-wort drunk in warm Wine resolves all Convulsions proceeding from cold warms the part and prevails against the Falling-sickness Vinegar of squills is commended by almost all Physicians and the Pouder may be given in it 21. Horstius also commends the Decoction of Carduus Benedictus to be taken every Morning and Evening as a mighty thing against the Epilepsy and Apoplexy but much more powerful if it be made with good Wine and it is yet more effectual if a dram of the Pouder of the Herb be given at a time with the said Decoction this he not only highly commends against the Falling-sickness but also against all Quartan Agues and yellow Jaundice and that is Optimum Remedium contra Vermes the greatest Medicine that is to kill Worms 22. Wine of black Cherries is often to be drunk for the Falling-sickness for it comforts the Stomach and Nerves and if Lavender and Rosemary-flowers be infused into it it will yet be more powerful Gregorius Horstius Tom. 3. c. XCIX The Epilepsy in a Youth 1. A Youth about sixteen years of Age was cured of this Disease by the following Cathartick Potion exhibited by me Take the distilled water of the flowers of the Tile-tree five ounces extract of Aesulae two scruples mix and strain them for a draught which being taken he did fast nine hours and his Belly was opened sufficiently 2. The third day after this Cathartick the left Cephalick Vein was opened 3. For Drink I gave him diluted Wine into which Hysop and Sage were put by these things he was happily freed Martinus Rulandus Cent. 4. Cur. 22. C. The Epilepsy in a middle aged Woman 2. Ann Beringerina aged forty years was afflicted with the Falling-sickness above eight years about the new and full Moon she did foam at the Mouth I did restore her to her former Health by these following things 2. Immediately before the new Moon as also before the quarters and full Moon I did exhibit every Morning five ounces of Terra sancta by which she did Vomit and purge much so that in the space of a month she obtain'd her perfect Health Martinus Rulandus Cent. 4. Cur. 32. CI. The Epilepsy in a young Man 1. A young man of about twenty years of age was cured by the following things Take spiritus Vitae Aureus one ounce three ounces of the spirit of the flowers of the Tile-tree mix them for a draught this he took fasting in the Morning and was sufficiently purged 2. The following day he took the same draught and was recovered perfectly every Week he used once our Sternutatory which is as follows Take Darnel Nigella seeds white Hellebor of each a scruple sweet Marjoram Rosemary and Sage of each half a dram Musk two grains make all into a sneezing Pouder of which let the quantity of a Pea be blown into his Nostrils in the Morning Rulandus Cent. 4. Cur. CII The Epilepsy in an aged Man 1. A Man about fifty years of age was afflicted with the Falling-sickness his Head was heavy and ached much at the first Invasion of the Disease he fell made a noise foam'd trembled and struck his Hands and Feet to the ground 2. His Cure I endeavoured thus First Take Aqua Terrae sanctae four ounces he drank this cold in the Morning and being well covered did Sweat and was also purged by Stool 3. After two days he took this Water again and had the like Operation he spake more readily and the pain of his Head c. began to be remitted 4. After three days he took it again and its operation was successful and did so much asswage the Paroxysm that it did never return again 5. After he was thus purged Blood was let by my advice in the middle Vein in the right Arm in the Morning and in the evening the left Cephalick Vein was opened he bled plentifully to his advantage by these remedies he was cured 6. The Sternutatory was used which is mentioned in the foregoing Section Martinus Rulandus Cent. 4. Cur. 71. CIII The Epilepsy 1. By certain and infallible experience I have found that several persons that were Epileptical were cured by our Anti-epileptick Tragaea 2. I give of this Tragaea from half a scruple to one scruple in pulp to Infants and those that are of tender years but to those that are elder and of a stronger Constitution I give one dram with their ordinary Food Martinus Rulandus Cent. 4. Cur. 80. CIV The Epilepsy in a Child 1. A Child of seven years of Age being grieviously afflicted with the Falling-sickness day and night he was cured by the following remedy 2. Take Oleum Heracleum seven drops this quantity was exhibited for seven days both before and in the time of the Paroxysm by the efficacy of this one Medicine this Child was cured Martinus Rulandus Cent 4. Cur. 85. CV The Epilepsy in an old Man 1. A man about sixty years of Age was suddenly grieved with an Epileptick symptom his Urine was watry and muddy I exhibited the following Purge Take the water of Tile flowers six ounces the pouder of Sena laxative two drams mix them for a draught this did work plentifully his Urine the next day appeared well coloured and he grew well 3. The following Medicine is a preservative against the Falling-sickness let him drink one ounce of the following Infusion in the Morning and at going to bed Take Hysop the flowers of Tile-tree of each one pugil infuse them into two pounds of sublimated Wine i. e. spirit of Wine Martinus Rulandus Cent. 5. Cur. 5. CVI. The Epilepsy in a middle aged person 1. One about the age of forty and two was cured by these Medicines Take the bigness of a Peae of our Sternutatory before mentioned He put it up into the Nostrils every Morning and Evening whereby Sneezing was much excited and the Head was well purged 2. Moreover the Paroxysm being remitted I did exhibite the Decoction of Sena half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive of Montanus syrup of Sena of each one ounce and half mix them for a draught by this he had Stools plentifully and was restored to his former Health Martinus Rulandus Cent. 5. Cur. 17. CVII The Epilepsy in a Youth 1. This following
the admiration of the by-standers he presently rested came to himself and grew well 3. I gave him a Fumigation of a Lobster into his Nostrils and extracted plentifully Blood from the Median Vein his Drink was the distilled water of Lavender sweetned with the Conserve of Peony Martinus Rulandus Cent. 10. Cur. 32. CXXII The Epilepsy in a middle aged Man 1. A Man about forty four years of Age suffered an Epilepsy which was accompanied with Melancholy his Urine was froathy and muddy 2. My advice being required I restored him in a few days to his former Health by these following Medicines Take the pouder of the roots Asarum one dram Wine six ounces mix them and make a draught which he drank off warm in his bed Sweating much and Vomiting whereupon he grew well 3 Our Sternutatory was used to considerable advantage for his Drink Wine was given wherein Hysop was infused Martinus Rudus Cent. 10. Cur. 65. CXXIII The Epilepsy in a middle aged Woman 1. A Married Woman becoming Epileptick having advised with me in the forty six year of her Age about her Cure I ordered Drink of the Decoction of Sage because she was a poor Citizen 2. For purging her I prescribed the following things Take the Water of Tile flowers mix them and make an infusion according to Art strain and take it every day for two days together 3. She sweated seven days together in her Bed taking six ounces of the Decoction of Hysop warm these Prescriptions being followed he was totally delivered from this Malady Martinus Rulandus Cent. 10. Cur. 66. CXXIV The Epilepsy in a very aged Woman 1. A Widow about seventy years of Age was vexed with the Falling-sickness for four years at the interval of Weeks according to the variety of Weather 2. Having advised with me I prescribed Vinum sublimatum i. e. spirit of Wine Pantonosagogum by which she was copiously purged without the least Detriment and was freed from that dangerous and tedious Disease Martinus Rulandus Cent. 10. Cur. 72. CXXV The Epilepsy in another ancient Woman 1. Another Widow in the sixtieth year of her age became Epileptick having fits six times every day and from the first minute of the Paroxysm her Hands and Fingers were convulsed then she fell and lay as one stupifyed for the space of half an hour afterwards she could rise and come to her self again 2. This Woman was recovered by me with this one following easy Medicine Take sublimated Wine i. e. spirit of Wine into which infuse Hysop then take every night going to Bed three large spoonfuls or two ounces when she had followed these Directions for a Week together the Convulsion totally intermitted and never returned again Martinus Rulandus Cent. 10. Cur. 95. CXXVI A Man Epileptick afflicted with the Stone 1. This Man being near forty years of Age and for above ten or twelve years past much afflicted with the Stone in the Bladder was at length siezed with the Falling-sickness The first Fit took him about the beginning of May the second Fit near the latter end of the same Months afterwards the Fits followed him for a while once a Week and at length he fell with them every day 2. He tryed several Physicians without any remedy at length he came to me he complained to me of both his Distempers nor could he tell which afflicted him most but desired my help against them both and by reason his Body was very apt to be bound I caused it to be kept open somtimes with Diacatholicon and somtimes with stewed Prunes prepared with Sena 3. Then I ordered this following Bolus to be taken every night going to bed Take Balsam of Peru three ounces pouder of Mans skull six drams salt of Hartshorn Misleto of the Oak Peony-seeds in pouder of each three drams mix and make an Electuary Dose from one dram to half an ounce encreasing the dose gradually this was taken for about nine or ten months without intermission 4. Every Morning fasting the following Potion was given Take Rhenish Wine four pound Onions shred small six ounces infuse all for forty hours then squeeze hard out to the expressed Liquor add distilled Water of Onions one pound and half salt of Mans skull one ounce mix them Dose five or six spoonfuls every Morning fasting or somewhat more encreasing the Dose also as the Patient can bear it 5. After this had been taken for a month the following was given for a month longer Take Oyl of Juniper-berries from twenty drops to thirty juyce of Limons two spoonfuls mix the Oyl first with a little white Sugar then with the juyce of Limons and so let him take it drinking after it a little draught of Water distilled from biting Arsmart or from Onions 6. And every day an hour before Dinner about ten ounces of the following mixture was given him Take simple water of Juniper-berries simple distilled waters of biting Arsmart and of Onions of each a like quantity mix them to which add at time of giving to every dose two drams or more of the Volatile and Antepileptick spirit of Vitriol 7. Once also every Week and somtimes oftner I purged his Head with proper Errhines by which a vast quantity of Water and purulent Excrements were drawn from thg Brain this was commonly done at night going to bed that he might not take cold by immediate going into the Air and by the constant use of these Medicines this Patient was perfectly cured of his Disease however after the first Month I ordered him for his constant drink a small Decoction of Guajacum in which a small quantity of Mustard-seed and Horse Radish roots were infused Ex MSS. R. Turneri Observ 127. CXXVII The Falling-sickness with other Symptoms 1. A Gentlewoman about 20 years of Age was afflicted every day with Suffocation and Swoâ—ning which degenerated into a Delirium and Convulsion of the whole Body afterwards there was some mitigations of those Symptoms yet they continued somtimes for the space of fifteen days 2. She was also troubled with a most grievious and sharp pains in her Arteries insomuch that she was constrained to cry out bitterly and if sometimes there appeared any intermission of her pains yet she was oppressed by Melancholy and became so lean that she looked not much better than an Anatomy being of a very wane palish colour as if she had been labouring under the Green-sickness 3. She remained in this Condition without Cure for the space of four or five years at length all the Physicians of Thoulouze were convocated to have a Consultation for her Cure but they looking on her Condition as desperate committed her Cure to time her native Air and the care of her Parents hoping that by those means she might recover 4. Notwithstanding she continued under her former Circumstances for many years and those Symptoms getting ground and growing every day more and more vigorous at last all means being dispaired of I was called upon and I asked what Medicines the Doctors
a very hard Callous the Cavity was so deep that a tent of four or five Inches long might go into it when I came to view it I presently saw it was a Fistula and an unskilful Artist had it in hand 5. I caused one Roger Dickson a Chyrurgion of my acquaintance to be sent for who laid open the sore and took off the Callous by application of unguentum Egytiacum which was very well and accurately performed 6. In the mean season I caused the Patient to drink this following Diet-drink Take Sage Betony Ale-hoof Self-heal Bugloss Bawm Avens Agrimony water-Agrimony Scordium Germander Clownes-Woundwort of each one handful Juniper-berries well bruised six ounces boyl all in a sufficient quantity of spring-water towards the end of the boyling add sal Prunellae two ounces boyl to the consumption of the third part of the water then strain and to every quart of the strained liquor being setled add spirit of Wine two ounces double refined Sugar three ounces let it be bottled up and so keep it for use one bottle of which the Patient drank every day 7. However during the time of the taking of this Diet every fourth day I purged the Patient with my Pill Panchimagogae which infallibly conquered the morbifick matter the Composition preparation vertues use and dose of them you may see in my Doron lib. 2. cap. 23. sect 1. 8. With the diet I caused also the Fistula to be washed and cleansing it with Vngnentum Nicotianae Afterwards I caused it to be washed with my Regulata or Magisteral water the which you may see in our said Doron lib. 3. cap. 1. sect 18. 9. By taking the things above named inwardly and by application of the other things outwardly with the use of Incarnatives the Fistula was disposed to healing and in about ten weeks time was made perfectly well 10. However all this while we were not unmindful of the contracture on the other Thigh but we after bathing the part with the Spirit of Wine applied thereto emollient Cataplasms such as the following 11. Take Pulp of Turneps baked with their skins on pulp of Onions baked with their skins on of each half a pound fat Figgs four ounces Oyl of Anniseeds six drams mix them well together and with Crums of white Bread and Orobus-meal a sufficient quantity beat them into a Pultise 12. This was applied for a Month afterwards we added to every half pound of the Pultise one ounce of Ox-Galls which was applied five or six weeks as before at the end of which time our Patient seemed to be well save there was left behind a weakness of the Part which we restored by this following Emplaster 13. Take Aloes in fine Pouder two ounces Mithridate Myrrh in fine Pouder of each three ounces Load-stone in fine Pouder an ounce and half mix the Aloes with the Mithridate dissolve the Myrrh with the rectified Spirit of Wine which make soft with a little Hony then mix all together adding thereto the Pouder of Loadstone and make an intire Mass which spread upon Leather and apply to the Part affected all these things were done in a little more than a quarter of a year and this deplored Patient was made perfectly well XI A Contracture in the Arm of three years standing 1. The Person was about three and thirty years of age the Contracture was about three years standing it was performed by a Chyrurgion by an application of Emollients and a steel Instrument screwed upon the Part. 2. He first of all by my directions bathed it with the Spirit of Aniseeds then anointed it with the Oyl of Earth-worms afterwards he applied this following emollient Pultise for ten days Take Yolks of Eggs number four Oyl of Roses Oyl of Earth-Worms of each two ounces Pulp of Cabbage eight ounces Pulp of roasted Turneps six ounces fat Figgs four ounces mix and beat all together and make a Cataplasm which let it be applied upon Leather Morning and Night for twelve days as aforesaid 3. At the end of twelve days he applied an emollient Emplaster upon which he fixed a steel Compress with Screws which being turned straightned the Part so that every day turning the Screws by little and little reduced the Part to its true Scituation 4. By the same means with the steel Compress another Person who had a Contracture in the Hand was cured in about sixty days time XII A Contracture proceeding from Epileptick-Fits 1. A young Maid being long troubled with an Epilepsy with convulsive Motions had after the Epilepsy left her a Contracture upon several parts of the right Side the first occasion was supposed to proceed from the vehemency of the Convulsions 2. These Contractions afflicted in a manner her whole left Side from which she was freed by the following Remedies 3. Inwardly because she had been formerly afflicted with the Epilepsy I caused these following things to be given Take choice Musk twelve grains Ambergrise five grains Civet one grain Venice-Treacle one scruple mix and make a Bolus to strengthen the Nerves 4. Outwardly I caused her to be bathed all over that Side with the Powers of Aniseeds which was done for five days 5. Afterwards I caused her to be anointed all over that Side with the Oyl of Earth-Worms especially where the chief Contractions were then I caused to be bound about her Arm Thigh and Legg a new Lambs-skin or Sheeps-skin whilst it was hot and new come off the Lamb or Sheep by the application of which alone thing I cured these Contractions in this Patient which were thought beyond Belief 6. For a Lambs-skin or Sheeps-skin whilst newly flead off hath the Power to mollify soften discuss and mightily strengthen the Part afflicted the which thing for its admirable Excellency in this kind I could not but mention and declare to the World 7. It is also an excellent thing against all manner of Gouts other Pains Lamnesses and Weaknesses of the Joints And I knew a certain Man vehemently afflicted with the Gout who was perfectly cured thereof by the application of fresh Sheeps-skins newly flea'd off to the Part affected XIII A Contraction with a Convulsion 1. Though all Convulsions are Contractions yet all Contractions are not Convulsions but this was a Contraction with a Convulsion the Contraction remaining when the Fit was off 2. And being first created by the vehemency of the convulsive Motions such a firm Contraction was made that the animal Spirits could not have their recourse as before whereupon for want of a Flux of Spirits a Contraction or Hardness was generated this Person thus afflicted was cured by the following things 3. Take Aqua Epileptica Langii four ounces Aqua Cerasorum nigrorum three ounces Spirit of Angelica the greater Composition two ounces Magistral Water of Earth-Worms and of Snails of each one ounce mix them together and dulcify them with Syrup of Clove-gilly-Flowers of which there was taken three spoonfuls every Morning fasting and every Night going to bed 4. And the
you may profitably give Tartar vitriolate which grows sweet in the Stomach and although sour takes away all manner of Acidities and withall cools the unnatural heat which wasts the Spirits to a wonder and by its gratefulness strengthens the Stomach singularly What we might say more as to this matter shall be referred to the Chapters of Weakness and Distempers of the Stomach hereafter to be treated of We now come to our third Indication 12. The third Intention is to strengthen the Brain Cerebel and Genus Nervosum which is done either by exhibition of Internals or application of Topicks For this purpose Sage and Castoreum are commended as also Goats-Rue and Arabian Staechas which may be given one dram at a time in Hydromel but the Potestates or Powers of those things transcend and may be also given in Hydromel or Cinnamon-Water from twenty to forty or sixty drops or in Conserves of Primroses Bawm Rosemary-Flowers or Acâ—rus or other things of like kind The Powers of Rosemary and of Lavender given in like manner prevail much Avicenna commends the Brains of a Hare roasted but above all things Castoreum as the most admirable thing in the World 13. But more particularly to comfort the Brain and Genus Nervosum this followâ—ng is by Sennertus advised Take Pulp of the flesh of wild Pidgeons or of a Magpie or a Stork being boyled in Wine three ounces the Brains of a Hare roasted one ounce sweet Almonds blanched number thirty fresh Pine-Nuts washed in Hydromel number twenty blew Currants one ounce Species of the Electuarium Resumptivum two drams Pulvis Cinnamoni three drams Ginger Cloves Mace Galangal of each one scruple Cardamums half a scruple Musk two grains clarified Honey a sufficient quantity mix and make an Electuary Or this Take Conserves of the Flowers of Rosemary Lavender and Sage of each half an ounce Electuarium Diacori six drams brains of a Hare roasted one ounce Castoreum half a dram Mans-skull prepared two drams Pouders of the roots and seeds of Peony of each one dram Misleto of the Oak half a dram Spirit of Primroses or Cowslips one dram Essentia Salis half a dram with Syrup of Staechas a sufficient quantity make an Electuary 14. Or this Take Conserves of Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and half green Ginger six drams Species Diamoschi Diambrae of each half a dram Venice-Treacle two drams Aureae Alexandrinae half a dram volatile Salt of Vitriol one scruple with Syrup of Betony a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Or this Take Conserves of Acorus and of the Flowers of Rosemary and Sage of each two ounces Mans-skull prepared half an ounce roots and seeds of Peony roots of Water-Plantain of each one dram and half the Brains of a Hare roasted two ounces mix and make an Electuary 15 But these things following are more powerful The Potestates Virtutum given from twenty to forty or sixty drops in Canary or Spirit of black Cherries Morning Noon and Night Or this Take Powers of Rosemary of Lavender of Sage of Savin of Mans-skull of each one ounce Powers of sweet Marjoram of musked Cranes Bill of Tyme of each half an ounce Powers of Musk and Ambergrise of each six drams mix them Dose from twenty to forty drops or more in any convenient Vehicle Powers of Cinnamon given alone in Canary or Metheglin are of admirable use Or this mixture Take Powers of Cinnamon two ounces Powers of Nutmegs Powers of Cloves of each half an ounce rectified Spirit of black Cherries of Earth-Worms and of Lavender of each three drams mix them all together Dose from thirty to sixty drops in Canary 16. This following Pouder is of good use Take Peacocks-Dung flesh of Swallows throughly dryed Mans-skull levigated of each one ounce Musk six drams Ambergrise half an ounce Pouder of Cloves and Cinnamon of each two drams Bezoar oriental and mineral of each one dram all being in fine Pouder mix them together Dose from ten grains to one scruple and in some cases to half a dram Or this Take Pouder of Mans-skull and of Musk of each half an ounce Ambergrise Salt ef Harts-horn and of Amber of each two drams Salt of Vipers one dram mix them Dose from eight to sixteen grains Or this Take Mans-skull levigated Swallows and flesh of Storks dryed and poudred Pouder of Vipers of each one ounce Salt of Harts-horn Tartar vitriolate of each half an ounce mix them Dose forty grains 17. This Electuary following is singular Take Electuarium and Tabidos Venice-Treacle of each two ounces Peacock-Dung one ounce Salt of Mans-skull Musk of each half an ounce volatile Salt of Swallows volatile Salt of Amber of each two drams with juyce of Alkermes a sufficient quantity mix and make an Electuary Dose one scruple or half a dram Or this Take Mithridate Electuarium de Ovo of each two ounces Pouder of the roots and seeds of Peony Pouder of Vipers and of Swallows of each one ounce Salt of Amber and of Mans-skull of each half an ounce Oyls of Rosemary Lavender Sage and sweet Marjoram of each twenty five drops juyce of Alkermes a sufficient quantity mix and make an Electuary Or this Take Venice-Treacle three ounces Oriental Bezoar Bezoar mineral volatile Salt of Amber of each one ounce fine Pouder of an Elks hoofs and of Ox-horns of each half an ounce Spirit or Powers of Vipers six drams with juyce of Alkermes a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Dose one scruple or half a dram Morning and Evening 18. Authors prepare a syrup after this manner Take leaves of Primroses or Cowslips of Sage Rue Ground-Pine Marjoram Germander Savory Calamint Origanum Betony of each half a handful Calamus Aromaticus half an ounce boyl them in water or Mead and with a sufficient quantity of Hony make a syrup in which while hot hang the following Nodulus letting it remain therein Take Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmegs black and long Pepper Ginger Spicknard Aniseeds and Peony-seeds of each one dram make all into a pouder and tye it up in a Rag. This following syrup is better Take syrup of the juyce of Alkermes twenty ounces Spirits of Angelica of Rosemary and of Castoreum of each three ounces Powers of Cinnamon of Musk and of Ambergrise of each an ounce and half mix them Dose half a spoonful Morning Noon and Night drinking after it a little glass of good Mead or Black-Cherry Wine 19. Nicolas Florentinus Serm. 3. To. 3. cap. 9. saith That a certain Woman sixty years of Age was delivered from a Tremor of the Head only by eating the flesh of a night Raven being skinned exviscerated and so boyled The Essence of Bawm given in Basil water is in good estimation so also a strong Tincture of Sage leaves made in rectified spirit of Wine to these things add Tincture of Wormwood Tincture of Myrrh Elixir proprietatis with other things of like nature Moreover some learned Men say That nothing profits more than a decoction of Lignum Guajacum and
Alkermes three ounces mix them very well in a glass by shaking Of this he took two spoonfuls at a time also I ordered him once a Month to take a Purge which was that of the Tincture of our said Family Pills XVII A Palsie happening in a scorbutick habit of Body 1. A Gentlewoman about thirty eight years of age of a cold gross pituitous and scorbutick habit of Body was seised with the Palsie on both Sides so that she had an impotency of motion both in her Hands and Arms Legs and Feet whereby she became totally helpless moreover she had a great weakness at Stomach so that whatsoever she took down she for the most part vomited up again 2. Having lain about half a year in this distressed condition she sent for me I enquired into the cause of her Disease but could hear little for that it crept on her as it were insensibly and by degrees so that she was some months before her distemper came to the height it begining first with a light numbness then with a weakness after that with an Impotency of motion first in one part then in another till at length she became as aforesaid wholly helpless with a loss of Appetite 3. Perceiving her habit of Body to be extremely scorbutick for she was loaded with various colored spots in several parts of her Body her Gums were wasted and her Teeth loose with wandering Pains up and down I judged it highly necessary in the Cure to mix Antiscorbuticks with Antâ—paralyticks and especially such as were of a hot nature for that the Scorbute seemed to be in a cold habit 4. I began with gentle purgations which was performed with Sena and Rhubarb infused in a weak spirit of Scurvy-grass I purged her therewith at first twice a week for a month together afterwards but once a week which purgation was continued during the whole time of the Cure 5. In the Intervals of purging I prescribed this following Julep to be taken every Morning fasting Take Aquae vitae Matthioli two ounces spirit of Earth-worms four ounces spirit of Scurvy-grass six ounces water of Hydropiper eight ounces syrup of Citron-peels six ounces mix them well together by shaking them in a Glass Of this mixture she took three or four spoonfuls at a time 6. Nere Noon to wit an hour or thereabouts before Dinner she took this Take Cinnamon-water three drams Water of Onions one ounce Salt of Scurvy-grass Carduus and Wormwood of each four grains syrup of Rosemary flowers an ounce and half mix them for a dose This caused a great fermentation in the Stomach and somtimes endangered vomiting but by Dinner time the force of its operation would seem to be over so as that the Sick would eat a hearty meal and with a singular appetite 7. At Night going to Bed I prescribed this Take Electuarium ad Tabidos a dram and half salt of Scurvigrass volatile salt of Harts-horn and of Mans-skull of each five grains Oyl of sweet Fennel-seed eight drops mix them This was given at going to Bed so that she slept upon it and it had a very pleasant and sweet operation upon her for it composed her to rest and withall enforced upon her a gentle Sweat moreover the Oyl of sweet Fennel seed has a power of corroborating the Stomach which is performed in part from the suavity and gentle heat for that it is observable that Oyls of Aniseed and of sweet Fennel-seed have a natural and specifick virtue to comfort and strengthen the Nerves in particular and Genus Nervosum in general and the Tunicles of the Stomach being composed of a nervous substance and I fearing there might withall be a Palsie of the Stomach concluded nothing could be more proper than that thing of which I have had a large experience in outward application against the Palsie and truly at this time it was given with great success 8. For her constant drink I ordered her a Guajacum-Diet such as is prescribed a Sect. XIII § 12. aforegoing but not made too strong so that she even drank it also at meals but in all she drank at time of drinking of it there was dropt about thirty or forty drops of pure Spirit of Scurvy-grass and somtimes Spirit of Horse-Radish-root that withall we might encounter the Scorbute at the same time By the use of these things the running and Scorbutick Pains were perfectly removed and she began to eat her Food well and with a Stomach and withall the Paralysis in the extream Parts evidently vanished 9. However during the performance of all these things we were not unmindful of applying fit Topicks and therefore I caused all the Spina Dorsi from the highest Vertebra of the Neck to the lowest of the Loins as also all the paralytick Members to be bathed with the Powers of sweet Fennel-seed which was done Morning and Night for seven or eight days at the end of that time we did not only continue the use of the said Powers as already related but also after the bathing was over anointed all those Parts with this following Oyl Take Oyl of Ben fourteen ounces Oyls of Aniseeds of Rosemary of Lavender of Savin of Sassafras and of Limons of each an ounce and half Oyl of Caraways one ounce mix them well together by shaking in a glass By the use of these things in about four Months time she was perfectly cured 10. A young Woman of about seven and twenty years of age and of an extream scorbutick habit of Body was also completely restored by the Method above prescribed save in the internal Medicaments in stead of the Spirit of Scurvy-grass and Horse Radish there was used the Spirits of Water Cresses and of Mustard seed which had full as great an Effect upon her as the other Spirits had upon the other Woman Moreover in stead of the last Topical Oyl this following was used Take Oyl of Ben twelve ounces chymical Oyl of Rosemary eight ounces mix them together to anoint with by the use of these things she also was cured 11. A Man also of about fifty years of age extreamly over-grown with the Scurvy becoming withall Paralytick was cured both of his Scurvy and Palsy by the former Method save in stead of the Guajacum Diet he had only a Decoction of Juniper-berries made in half Water half Wine which he took with Spirit of Scurvy grass as aforesaid and in stead of the Powers of sweet Fennel-seed he bathed with the Powers of Caraways and then anointed with this Oyl Take Oyl Olive twelve ounces Oyl of Juniper-berries five ounces Oyl of Limons or of Oranges three ounces mix them to anoint with 12. A noble Youth through careless living acquired a Scorbutick habit and by taking an extraordinary Cold became Paralytick through his whole right Side many Galenick things had been used to him for six or seven Months time but all in vain for the Physicians not perceiving a Scorbute to be joyned with a Paralysis mistook their measures in
sufficient quantity mix and make a potion 3. And let him afterwards drink the following decoction of wood Take Lignum Guajacum Raisins of the Sun of each two ounces Sassafras two drams Cinnamon Galangal Aniseeds of each one dram Liquorish scraped and cut five ounces mix them for three measures 4. In the Morning let him use the following gross pouder for comforting the Brain and Stomach Take confection of Amber of Diambra of Diamoschi Duicis Orange-peel confected of each five ounces Nutmegs four ounces mix them for a pouder 5. Galangal may be used in Broths by this purgative draught he was very well cleansed but was very much afflicted for three days Night and Day with a troublesom Hiccough his urine was pale yet clear enough having therein plenty of a sandy sediment 6. I prescribed the following Stomachical tragea Take Aniseeds five ounces the roots of Elecampane Galangal of each one dram the seeds of Fennel of Caraway of Cinnamon of each two drams Sugar a sufficient quantity mix them for a Tragaea 7. Let him drink after the following draught of Wine Take Aniseed two ounces Cinnamon Mastich of each five ounces boyl them in three quarts of Wine to the consumption of a third part let him take Morning and Evening one draught 8. Let him use in Broth two or three drops of the Oyl of Caraway-seeds or of Anise distilled 9. After Meat it will be fit to take the Confection of Coriander-seeds or an Electuary of Quinces 10. There may be applyed to the Orifice of the Stomach before and behind the twelfth Vertebra the following Bag Take the Leaves and Flowers of Cinnamon of each two handfuls the Leaves of Marjoram Mint Worm-wood of each one handful Galangal the seed of Anise Fennel Caraway of each two drams make a Bag to be carried always upon the Stomach 11. Two other Bags may be prepared pressed from Wine and Water between two Trenchers about which another dry Cloath is to be put to be applyed on both Sides I did try hot Ashes made wet in Lye or Aqua Vitae or Malaga-Sack and then put into a Platter in which a Rag may be dipped 12. Afterwards he may anoint himself with the Oyl of Honey and Mastick these Remedies being diligently used he was freed from this troublesom Hiccough Wolfgangus Gabelchoverus Cent. 4. Cur. 61. XLVI A Palsy in a young Girl 1. A Maid of about ten years of age began to be troubled with a certain numbedness of the left Side whereupon followed an impotency of the Tongue insomuch that she could scarcely speak out though she endeavoured what she could 2. She was afflicted with an old Head-ach her Brain was moist and cold her Urine was white and thick in some measure the Medicines that were tryed for the Cure of this Dâ—sease are as follow 3. Take the root of Mechoacanan two drams the Leaves of Sena one dram and half Agarick half a dram the Bark of black Hellebor one dram the Flowers of Staechas of Rosemary of Betony of each one pugil Ani-seeds and Coriander-seeds prepared of each one dram choice Cinnamon one dram the roots of Orrice of Peony of each half a dram Grains of Paradise one scruple the Leaves of Bawm half an handful cut and bruise for a Nodule in a pint and half of Rhenish-Wine 4. Take Syrup of Cinnamon one ounce and half of Staechas half an ounce Gallia Moschata Magistry of Pearls the roots of Florentine-Orrice of each six grains Oyl of Anise two drops mix them and in the Morning let him take one spoonful 5. Take the roots of Orrice half a dram of Peony of Misleto of the Oak of each one scruple red Coral prepared white Amber prepared Cinnamon Harts-horn prepared of each two scruples Emeralds prepared Pearls prepared of each a scruple Elkes-hoof seven grains the seed of Coriander prepared Lozenges of Pearls Sugar-Peneds of each three drams make a very fine Pouder whereupon sprinkle of the Oyls of Anise two drops of Cinnamon one drop 6. She may take Morning and Evening after she has made use of this Syrup the following things Take the Flowers of Cow-slips Lilly Convally Peony of each half a dram the roots of Peony one dram Florentine-Orrice white Amber prepared of each one dram and half the Barks of dryed Citrons two drams Arabian Sanderack Styrax Calamitae Myrrh Frankincense of each one scruple Flowers of Staechas and of Time of each two scruples red Roses Coriander-seed of each half a dram make a gross Pouder as it ought to be for a Cucupha or Cap. 7. Take Oyl of Nutmegs one dram Oyls chymical of Amber two drops of Marjoram and of Aniseeds of each three drops of Cloves and of Cinnamon of each two drops Musk Ambergrise and Civit of each one grain mix and make a Liniment 8. A Mâ—sticatory Take Mastick two drams roots of Pyrethrum Nutmegs Mace Cubebs Aniseeds of each half a scruple Marjoram six grains Troches of Gallia Moschata three grains with Wax and Honey inspissâ—ated make Masticatories weighing twenty five grains 9. Pulvis Pepticus or digestive Pouder Take Sugar-Candy aromatized Flesh of Quinces of each one ounce and half Nutmegs Coriander-seed red Coral prepared of each half a dram red Roses one scruple Confects of Aniseeds and of Fennel-seeds of each two drams Sugar of Roses tabulated three drams make all into a fine Pouder By the use of these things she was through the Blessing of God made perfectly well Gruling Cent. 1. Observ 37. XLVII A Palsy from the Cholick 1. A certain Canon having the Cholick was totally resolved and deprived of the motion of all his Members the morbifick matter being translated to the musculous and nervous Parts intercepting the passage of the animal Spirits 2. Several convenient purgatives and sudorificks of the Decoction of Lignum Sanctum and Sarsaparilla were administred by me without giving ease at length by the divine Benediction he was wholly recovered by the benefit of a Bath of the Decoction of Cammomil Sage Marjoram Origanum Rosemary Mint the berries and tops of Juniper Thonerus Lib. 2. Observ 8. XLVIII A Palsy of both Legs in a young Girl 1. A Maid about ten years of age was taken with a Palsy of both Legs and totally deprived of motion from the obstruction of the Nerves proceeding from the Os Sacrum by thick flegmatick humors shutting up the passage of the animal Spirits 2. These following things were ordered for evacuating the flegmatick humors this laxative Hydromel was prescribed Take roots of Elecampane Fennel Orrice of each two drams Betony Bawm Rosemary-Flowers Sage of each one pugil the Leaves of Sena one ounce fresh Agarick trochiscated half an ounce Mechoacan three drams the best Turbith two drams the lesser Galangal one dram make a Bag for three pints of Mead of which a quarter of a pint is to be taken at once 3. The Body being thus cleansed the above mentioned Balneum may be used of the Decoction of the Leaves of Sage Origanum Rosemary-Flowers Marjoram
used after fomentation 6. Add to these Soap of such a kind as shall be presently described with which the sick may wash his Hands after fomentation and anointing this Soap will of its own accord grow dry in the Hands the description of this Soap is as follows 7. Take Venice Soap Mucilage of Marsh-mallows of each one ounce Rocket-seeds bruised two drams Oyl of Juniper berries half an ounce mix them 8. But if by the above mentioned things you are not any thing the better in the place of the aforesaid Fomentation Take Nettle roots three handfuls Cumin seed one ounce Salt three drams mix them and boyl them as above-directed 9. In the place of the aforenamed Oyntment this which followes may be also taken Take old Oyl half a pound Hogs Blood three ounces Castoreum one dram with a little Wax mix and make a Liniment 10. I have used both the first and second and the second in the first by which I perceived the Trembling of my Hands For my Feet were always firm palpably to vanish in so much that I had no occasion to use these following remedies 11. But if the last above mentioned Oyntment have not efficacy enough the following stronger Oyntment may be used Take the shells of black Snails burn them in some Pitcher and save of the liquid Fat two ounces the Fat of a Heron of a Badger of a Dog of each one dram Goats and Harts Sewet of each six drams Venice Sope with the juice of Carduus and Marsh-mallows dissolved a sufficient quantity mix them over a gentle fire 12. But if yet a stronger Medicine be required the following Oyntment may be applied Take the pouder of Earth-worms two ounces Calamus Aromaticus six drams Galangal four drams clarified Honey a sufficient quantity boyl them to a thickness Crato apud Scholtzium Epist Medic. 237. XC The Palsy of the Tongue 1. An antient Woman about sixty eight years of age was afflicted with a Palsy of the Tongue 2. By my advice the flowers of Lavender were infused in Spirit of Wine afterwards for some days Morning and Evening she took before she went to Bed one ounce thereof and from that time she began to speak more plainly Martinus Rulandus Cent. 4. Cur. 55. XCI The Palsy of the Tongue 1. A Country Man by some Blows and Hurt that he received fell into a Palsy of the Tongue having therewith a Pain in his right Side occasioned by the former accident he had the exercise of his reason but could not speak he was cured by me with the following Medicines 2. I took the bigness of a pease of my Sternutatory with Musk and by a quill did thrice blow it up into his Nostrils from whence more frequent Sternutations were excited 3. In the next place I did anoint his Tongue which was resolved with the Oleum Ligni Heraclij afterwards I gave him half a spoonfull by degrees of the Oleum Heraclium when he had taken thrice of this his Speech was restored and he could articulately express the Sentiments of his mind 4. His right side that was pained I did gently rub with Raggs dipped in Butter in which Cumin bruised was sprinkled by this the Pain of the Side was removed 5. I did also prescribe this Purge for evacuating the impurity of the coagulated Blood which should be used in all contusions and bruises 6. Take Extractum Esula one dram the Whey of Milk six ounces mix them boyl them once then strain aftwerwards drink it all off 7. His body being well purged by this he began to glow very well after this he descended into a Chalybeated Bath then after going out of the Bath his Head was washed with a Lye of Marjoram Penyroyal c. this being done he was rostored to his Health and soundness of Body Martinus Rulandus Cent. 7. Cur. 36. XCII The Palsy of the Tongue 1. A Man in the fifteenth year of his age was afflicted with a Palsy accompanied with want of rest I exhibited to him these following things Take Fountain water six ounces so much of the Oyl of Vitriol as is sufficient to correct the crudity of the Water he took every hour of this water one spoonful 2. And because he was slow in expressing himself distinctly I did prescribe this following Cathartick potion Take extractum Colocynthidis the bigness of a Nut Whey two ounces mix them this being done he drunk it up warm upon which followed a plentiful evacuation yet the impediment of his Tongue remained 3. Wherefore the next day I exhibited this following Holagog Take Spiritus vitae Auraei one ounce syrup of Liquorice one dram mix them by this a great quantity of watery and serous matter was expurgated 4. His Speech being wholy restored before I exhibited this dose and also in the very time of the operation I anointed his Paralytick Tongue with our Oleum Heraclij drop by drop with good success then I advised him to sweat liberally which being done I ordered his Head to be washed with the following Lye 5. Take Fountain-Water good Lye of each two pounds the Heads of white Poppies number six boyl them all together to the Consumption of six ounces let his Head be washed in the Decoction to incline him to sleep 6. And because of the Pain in the Head whereof he complained I ordered his Cephalick Vein to be opened by this he was restored to perfect Health Martinus Rulandus Cent. 7. Cur. 53. XCIII A Palsy of the Tongue 1. A certain married Woman was suddenly taken with a Palsy of the Tongue I being then present insomuch that she could not speak yet she was sound in her Intellectuals her Urine was muddy and watery and another bad Symptom did accompany the former which was a Pain of ihe Head 2. For removing and eradicating this Disease we ordered first the use of our Sternutatory then the whole Tongue was to be washed thrice with our Oleum Heraclii 3. I applyed to the Crown of his Head a Ferment sprinkled with Amber pulverized 4. Take Cinnamon-Water five ounces Oyl of Vitriol so many drops as are sufficient to render it acid I gave her often one spoonful of this Water or about half an ounce 5. All these things being administred according to Prescription she began to speak distinctly in the space of one Day and to walk about Martinus Rulandus Cent. 8. Cur. 77. XCIV A Palsy of the Tongue and Arm. 1. A Man about sixty six years of Age was delivered from and cured of this Disease by the following Medicines Take Syrup of Roses solutive Montanae three ounces Lavender-Water three ounces mix them for a Potion this wrought well 2. Take Wine four ounces rectified Oyl of Vitriol so many drops as are sufficient to render the Wine acid This was first still applyed to the Tongue till he began to speak 3. His Meats were few and drying his Drink was Lavender-Water in which Sugar was dissolved by these few Medicament he began to speak and walk
being extravasated it falls upon the Tunica Cornea Others think that these Vapours enter through the Optick Nerve the chief Organ of Sight and through that are carried as through a Pipe from the Brain and original of the said Nerve to the Orbicle of the Eye but this cannot be for no kind of Vapours can be carried through Nerves of any kind for that they are not only the Channels of the Animal Spirits but also always full thereof and it is against the nature of Vapors to fall downwards unless forced by violence which here is wanting 6. Truly in the midst of all these misapprehensions We judge directly opposite viz. That these Vapors assaulting chiefly the fore part of the Brain are confounded with the Animal Spirits wherewith the brightness of the Images offered to the Brain by the Optick Nerve is rendred unequal and darkned in many places so that to the Brain there is offered a shew of false Apparitions and visions confounded with the true Image of things And that this is done in the Brain and not in the Eyes the Vertigo which for the most part doth accost these various Visions and false Images does apparently shew for that the Spirits then in the Brain are also confusedly agitated whence follows a turning and wheeling about or giddiness after which the Scotoma or darkness by which the patient becoms as it were almost blind forasmuch as by degrees those multitudes of Vapours do wholly obscure and enwrap the Spirits the which happens in that part of the brain which is the highest and which gives the original to the Optick Nerves 7. This Disease took the youth by fits without any other Symtoms than what we have already declared by which it appeared to be truly a Scotoma most Physicians would have begun this Cure with Blood-letting but I fearing to diminish the forces and strength of the body advised to another course First I exhibited a Vomit Take infusion of Crocus Metalorum six drams Oxymel of Squills half an ounce Bawm water four ounces mix them for a Dose This I repeated once a week for a month 8. The next day I purged him with Tinctura ex tribus which gave him ten or 12 stools the way of making of it you may see in my Doron Medicum lib. 2. cap. 7. sect 16. this Purge I repeated every third or fourth day for about three weeks time for purgers ought to be used in all the species of a Vertigo if the matter sending forth those vapours consist in the first passages Or if such an evaporation arise in the Head from impure blood mixed with choler as here it was apparent from whence these impure vapors have their Original 9. In the intervals of purging I ordered 8 or 10 drops of the Spirit of Sal Armoniack to be given twice a day in this following Juleb Take syrup of the juyce of Endive syrup of Succory of each one ounce syrup of the two opening roots half an ounce waters of Wormwood and Succory as much as is sufficient mix and make a Juleb At night I ordered the Pulvis ad Vertiginem Cratonis to be given in this following Electuary Take Conserve of Roses and of Marjoram of each an ounce and half flowers of Peony Citron peels Rob of Currans of each half an ounce Canded Quinces one ounce Pouder of Amber of Coral and of Coriander-seed of each one Dram Fennel and Peony Roots of each half a dram Mastich a scruple with Syrup of the Conserve of Citron Peels make an Electuary of which you may give the quantity of a Chesnut at a time 10. As to his Diet I ordered things which bred but few Vapors as Fish of gravelly places Coneys and such like to be eaten with sower sawce and in all his Drink that some few drops of Oyl of Sulphur should be put because all acid things chiefly Oyl of Sulphur not only hinder the rising of Vapors but greatly strengthen the Stomach and the other Viscera and so cool the blood whereby the generation of the matter causing the Scotoma is certainly prevented by this means the Youth was in five weeks time Cured II. A Vertigo arising in a Flegmatick Habit of Body with weakness of Sight 1. This hapned in a Man 48 years of Age of a cold moist and flegmatick disposition who had for 3 or 4 years been at times much afflicted therewith 2. The Cause from all the Symptoms that did appear was a repletion of the Brain by a cold and watery humor pituitous and serous every where filling the windings and spaces of the brain thereby generating plenty of Wind so that when the Head was moved the humor being stirred and following the motion of the Head as we said before of the Spirits the Vertigo would be excited and he complained of a fluctuation within his Skull as he thought for without doubt there was great plenty of the Humor moreover he had signs of Phlegm abounding in all parts of the body 3. Seeing all the preceeding Symptoms I much feared least it should terminate in an Epilepsy Apoplexy or Carus because the Paroxism would now return often and be of long continuance forasmuch as a Vertigo of this kind is wont to terminate in those dangerous Diseases now this it does not by simply cooling and moistning the brain but by the immense plenty of the humor the which in such as have dyed of an Apoplexy we have found the Skull being opened and Authors Report that in some it hath come forth by Floods moreover I also much feared blindness because it does often arise from Wind and a Fluctuation of the said humor to the Optick Nerves 4. In order to his Cure I considered fiâ—st that the cause ought to be removed which was the Flegmatick habit of the body and watery quality of the blood secondly that the brain and its windings might be freed from the ventosity and humor abounding thirdly that the parts already afflicted and weakned might be strengthned 5. As to the first intention of Cure I prescribed this Clyster Take fat Broth a pint Tincture of Colocynthis an ounce and half Oyl Olive two ounces Oyl of Anniseeds a dram mix for a Clyster This Clyster I caused to be repeated every fifth or sixth day Every morning fasting I gave him two or three spoonfulls of syrup of Juyce of Pellitory of the Wall made with Honey which I ordered to be continued for six weeks Every fourth day I purged him with the Tinctura Phlegmagoga Grulingij which evacuated him notably and spent the watery humor largely See it in our Pharmacop Lond. lib. 4. cap. 7. 6. But that we might as well strengthen Nature and help her in her Acts as altogether weaken by purging I prescribed the Electuarium ad Tabidos to be taken to the quantity of a Nutmeg in the intermediate days of purging and now and than to take a glass of choice Wormwood Wine whereby the sick might be refected and comforted and every other night
Mastich of each two drams gum-Juniper Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar of each half an ounce juice of Citrons one ounce and half and two drams Yellow Wax five ounces and half make an Emplaster which being spread upon linnen is to be applied to the Feet about the Heel twice a day renewing it this had a good effect 6. Here follows an Ointment for the Hands Take Mans-fat Bears and Wolves fat of each two drams Badgers fat three drams dissolve add the Oyl of Foxes two drams mix them being removed from the fire add the Oyl of Annis half a dram Oyl of Wax half an ounce By these things we did her so much good that she could stretch out her Hands take Food and walk 7. Lastly for greater strengthning we advised to the use of a Bath of the decoction of Herbs with a mixture of Mineralds the form of the Bath is thus Take Alum Sulphur Bay-berries of each one pound the Berries and tops of Juniper the leaves of Sage of each one handful bruise them all in a mortar then being put up into a bag boyl them all in water for a bath The half of this mixture is to be used for one bathing and it is to be continued for three days Thonerus lib. 2. Observ 5. XX. A Pain and Contraction of the Back 1. A Gentleman being miserably afflicted with a Pain and Contraction of the Back from a defluxion upon the Nerves was freed by the following Oyntment 2. Take Vnguentum Aregon Martiatum Agrippae of each two drams Oyl of Cammomil Oyls of Dill and Lillys of each one dram Oyls of Earthworms and of Foxes of each one dram and half Badgers-fat Mans and Foxes grease of each half a dram mix and anoint the parts with it warm Thonerus lib. 2. Observ 3. SCHOLIA The THEORY of CONTRACTURES By the Author W. Salmon XXI The Pathology of Contractures or Contractions and first of the Notation thereof 1. The Names This Disease is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contractio the Contraction or shrinking up of a part as also from the parts which are contracted which are for the most part the Nerves or Tendons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contractio Nervi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nervus contractus and from the Effect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nervus corneus vel callosus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Callus Tendinum A Callous and horn-like Nerve or Tendon 2. The Definition A Contraction is a preternatural Tumor in a Muscle hardning and shrinking up a Nerve or Tendon in the same whereby the Parts adjacent are attracted to it and as it were bound up so as they cannot be stretched out 3. The Kinds or Differences Somtimes but one Nerve or Tendon is contracted Somtimes many as in a Contraction of the Wrist and other Joints where many Tendons meet It is either new and not wholly confirmed or confirmed and of a bone-like hardness It differs also according to the Scituation of the Parts in some the Contraction is in the Arm against the Elbow in others the Fingers are contracted in some the Hams are contracted in others the Toes and in some the Musculus latus which causes a wry Neck XXII The Signs of a Contracture 1. The principal Signs of a Contracture are manifest by the Definition as 1. Tumor in the Muscle 2. a hardning of the Nerve or Tendon 3. a shrinking up or shortning of the same 2. Where these three Symptoms of a Contracture happens there is also for the most part an Attraction or drawing up of the adjacent Part but this is more or less eminent according to the Magnitude of the Contraction 3. If one Tendon only be contracted the Tumor is not only the less but the Attraction almost inconsiderable but if many Tendons or Nerves be contracted the Tumor is the greater and the Attraction very manifest to the Senses 4. If the matter contracted be very hard so as that it is arived to a boney or horn-like hardness the Disease is then confirmed but this is most common where the Nerves or Tendons are very small or slender by reason of which they the more easily admit of Arefaction 5. Lastly a Contracture is known by feeling there being always an external hardness of the Part not much unlike to the streining of a Cord or Bow-string and this for the most part in the hollow or bending of the Joint XXIII Of the Causes of a Contracture 1. The Causes of a Contracture are manifold though the first and prime Cause is or can be but one to wit a deficience or cutting off of the animal Spirits and a siccasion or drying up of the neurotick Juyce and this may be somtimes caused by a Scirrhus or Node arising from the Excrements in the Muscles especially about the Tendons where many meet near the Joints as is often-times to be seen in the bending of the Elbow Wrists Ham c. wherein the Hand in the one and the Foot in the other are drawn upwards the one inwards as it were the other outwards or backward 2. It somtimes also comes to pass by a Callous in a Muscle Nerve or Tendon which may be caused from a Wound by which they were wounded wherein though they were not wholly cut in two yet by the gathering together of the lips of the Wound it contracts or shortens the body or tail of the Muscle and causes that Part into which it is inserted to be more or less bound up the which also has somtimes come to pass in a wound of the temporal Muscle wherein the Mouth was so drawn up that it would scarcely admit any thing of Food although the most liquid And in this case it is clear that there is a cutting off of the animal Spirits and while Nature is endeavouring to restore the Part whereby to entertain the Spirits in their Channels she by reason of their absence and loss of the neurotick Juyce forms only a Callous whence is the generation of a matter which perpetually obstructs the Motion and Course of the said Spirits and consequently of that softning Juyce which in part contributes to the constitution of the said Nerves and Tendons 3. There being thus a Siccation of the Muscles or the Tendons and with them somtimes the Nerves inserted into them being as it were wrinckled shrunk or bound up they become hardned and resemble a Callous so as that they cannot be extended or bent and so in what Scituation they remain in the same posture also they keep the member into which they are implanted fixt and immoveable which is either more or less contracted according to the urgency of the first Cause and these things somtimes come to pass in old Age or by reason of too much and long continued Labour which too plentifully exhausting the animal Spirits causes the Parts to become stiff and diversly crooked with a kind of horney hardness of the part as may be seen in the Hands and Fingers of such as continually use hard work or hold hard
the Original of the Nerves stirs up the Spasmodick affections yet the Lethargy does not arise from any such cause but from the exterior Brain is inundated and compressed Willis Patholog cap. 9. Observ 6. LXX The Palsy arising from a Cholick 1. A certain Gentleman who had been long sickly oft times sick indeed was troubled for almost five months with a Cholick or rather a wandring Gout and a fierce and stubborn Scurvey Insomuch that not only the Bowels and Loins were afflicted with great torments but moreover the whole Membrains and Muscles were troubled with continual pungent and pricking Pains 2. At length he endured most horrible Convulsions one while resolutions of the parts now a Phrensy in the Head then Appoplectick assaults and obfuscation of the sight at length he Died his strength being wasted and the treasury of the Spirits being exhausted 3. Seven days the penult being excepted before his Death he was more vigorous both as to sense and intellect yet live almost always without sleep and although Opiats milder and stronger Medicines were exhibited yet could he scarcely sleep 4. A little before he came to be watchful to that degree a great quantity of water did flow forth from a Vesicatory applyed to the Neck and did afterwards run every day till the day of his Death from thence I suppose that the watery humour being taken too copiously from the Brain was the cause of his being so little addicted to sleep and drouziness 5. This Gentlemans Head being opened the inward Cavities of the Brain or all the Ventricles were filled full of clear lympid water and they appeared as if they were distended yea about the top of the Back-bone the very Furis Medullaris seemed to be immerged in water that was gathered there 6. Without doubt for this reason Pains and fierce Convulsions in the Loins and Members yea in the whole Body were so troublesom and because of the overflowing in the Ventricles he was obnoxious to frequent obfuscations of the sight and resolution of the Joints 7. Nevertheless from thence there was no Lethargy but because of the water too much derived from the Brain by Vesicatories a great watchfullness was occasioned 8. He was afflicted with a Dropsy of the Brest because of the Lungs being much vitiated his Liver which was very big was every where full of white spots and almost without any blood therefore the vices of the blood and Nervous part ought in some measure to be attributed to these faults of the Viscera Willis Patholog cap. 9. Observ 7. LXXI A Palsy following upon a Feaver 1. A certain Youth had a Feaver with a Cough which ended in a Palsy of the Tongue first we gave him this Laxative syrup 2. Takâ— syrup of Roses solutive two ounces Manna half an ounce a little of the decoction of the flowers and fruits with the leaves of Sena 3. After the Belly was loosened we gave a sudorifick powder to be taken at two several times made of Harts-horn prepared with the shreds of Scarlet-Cloath of each half a dram in the water of Carduus Benedictus 4. We gave him in the next place for his Cough the roots of Sorrel with Harts-horn and Sugar-Candy and the syrup of the juyce of Citrons mixed with syrup of Violets also Conserve of Roses and Violets and the like 5. But we gave ease to his violent Cough by syrup of Jujubs mixed with syrup of Violets and somtimes for Inspissating the Catarrh and defluxion we gave him in the Evening the syrup of the flowers of wild Poppie 6. When by these things the principal Disease was defeated there happened and succeeded a Palsy of the Tongue from which he was deprived of his speech I conjecture the cause of this proceeded from a Catarrh falling upon the Nerves of the Tongue for whom was prescribed the following Cephalick Balsam 7. Take Oyl of Nutmeg by expression one dram Oyls of Bawm Rue Rosemary Marjoram of each half a scruple mix them and make a Balsam wherewith anoint frequently the Head Temples and Nostrills 8. The following Gargarism was prescribed Take the waters of Sage and Lilly Convally of each six ounces the spirit of black Cherries one ounce and half Mithridate one dram and half mix them 9. Outwardly was applyed a bag of the seeds of Nigella Mastich Nutmeg the flowers of Lavender Marjoram and the like by these things and the observation of a good Diet this Youth gradually recovered strength Gregorius Horstius lib. 1. Observ 29. LXXII A Palsy following upon Cholick Pains 1. One about fifty years of age had violent Pains of the Cholick but when the Intensness of the pain abated there succeeded a great weekness of the Feet and Hands which ended in a Palsy of both but chiefly of the Hands and Arms. 2. The Diet we prescribed for this person is such as is of an easy concoction and will rather keep the Belly lose than hard such is the Broth of Hens wherein Prunes and Currans are put Apples roasted with confected Anise and Fennel rear Eggs with fresh Butter the flesh of Hens Pullets Pigeons Veal and Mutton the Broth of these meats is to be aromatized with a little Rosemary Time Marjoram Mace Savory Fennel Anise Caraway and the like your Wine must be old and your Beer new 3. Then we appointed the following Clyster Take Broth of Hens flesh one pound and half the flowers of Cammomil half an handful Aniseed Fennel-seed Cucumber-seeds of each one dram make a decoction strain then add the Electuary of Hiera picra simplex one ounce Oyl of Dill Oyl of Cammomil of each two ounces Salt one dram mix them By the benefit of this the belly was not only rendred loose but the flatulency of the Inward parts was corrected 4. After two days one dram of the pouder of Mechoacan with four grains of the Troches Alhandal was given hot in Wine of Raisons for a fuller purgation 5. Or in the place of the pouder you may take a Bolus Take our Electuary of Tamarinds six drams Pulvis De tribus Augustanorum two scruples mix them and take it fasting a draught of the decoction of Pease is to be drunk immediately after 6. And in the intermediate days for making the Belly loose a draught of the Wine of Raisons warmed with one ounce an a half of the Oyl of bitter Almonds will not be Inconvenient 7. You may take these Medicaments for strengthning and comforting of the Stomach to wit the roots of Succory one handful boyl them in flesh broth with which you may mix eight or nine drops of the Spirit of Turpentine two hours before Meat but in the mean time you must forbear the use of other Medicines 8. By the continuance of this proper means the Stomach will be strengthened Ventosities dissipated and obstructions in the Mesentery prevented 9. You may take half a dram of the following Stomach-pouder with white bread a little toasted and moistened in Malago Wine Take Coriander prepared half
subtilty of the matter is excited wandering pains through the Body and its Members which causes first infinite weakness then a Stapor or Numness and at last a Resolution or Palsy of the parts afflicted for that the seat of the morbifick matter or Particles is now changed being transfused into the Splanchnick Nâ—rves which pulling and twitching the Fibres of the Viscera stirs up Pains and Convulsions then becoming more plentiful diffuse themselves through the Spinal Marrow where entering into the Nerves destinated to such respective parts forthwith induces as aforesaid a Resolution or Palsy 24. In like manner after a frequent and vehement Gout a Palsy may be excited from the infinite weakning of the Nerves and Muscles through the extream anguish and misery of the part for thereby at length voluntary motion comes to be abolished but not for that cause only but from a more inward cause inherent in the Cavities of the Nerves themselves for that the Neurotick juice by the heat and inflamation of the Disease afflicting is rarified and forced out of its own domicil into the hollows of the Nerves where interfering with the Animal Spirit not only exasperates the pain whereby the part comes to be weakned but also obstructs the future occurse of the said Spirit to the same place besides which 't is also possible that the gouty Particles transfusing themselves into the mass of Blood with which being carried to the Brain and being continually multiplyed by manifold accessions may at length contaminate the Spirits in the Callous and streaked Bodies oblong and spinal Marrow and in the original of the Nerves of several conjugations or pairs and their several and various ramifications so as to induce an absolute and confirm'd Palsy 25. There is another species of this Disease wherein the motive Faculty is not abolished but only weakly performed or depraved This is caused either from the want or impotency of the Animal Spirit whereby the Members cannot strongly move or lift or bear any weight but they labour under a great debility and trembling for a sufficient strength being wanting for the performance of any act at one essay Nature submitting is forced to act by a more often repeated endeavour and so the part being in motion is forced to shake and tremble whence it is that in some palsied people there is always a trembling and shaking in all their Limbs for that the nervous Fibres are universally weakned which continually striving to exert their wonted power reiterate those depraved motions perpetually 26. Those who suffer a Palsy through a defect of the Animal Spirit are such as have lost much Blood or such as have too often exercised the Venerial Act or are arrived to an extream or unhealthy old Age for by these means the Spirits are wasted and the supply or stock and provision of them being but small their dispensation into the Genus Nervosum is so much diminished that a trembling Paralysis commonly succeeds thereupon 27. The same thing almost happens to such as have lain long sick in an Atrophy or wasting condition and some other chronical Diseases in which the Spirits wast or decay and the Vigour force or strength of the Body gradatim and as it were insensibly declines whereby they become so enervated as that they can neither go nor stand upright much less perform any other action which requires any considerable power these somtimes lye Bed-rid long and it may be without any considerable sickness and although they seem every day as if they were ready to die yet they lye easily quietly and undisturbed talk chearfully but dare not rise or move for that upon the least motion such a signal uneasiness and weariness seises upon them as if they had don some hard labour or gon some great journey so that they cannot be rested again in some hours after In this case certainly although the Animal Spirits do in some sort inliven and actuate the Genus Nervosum yet the due measure is so small and their proportion to the whole so defective that the power of moving though not wholly taken away yet is so depraved that the sick can scarcely be perswaded to try whether they can move or not 28. And almost for the same reason the Motive faculty fails or is depraved in Scorbutick Persons and such as have often Surfeited themselves with Gluttony and strong liquors whereby such a superfluous quantity of ill humors and indigested matter is generated that thereby even the Spirits themselves are contaminated and at long run almost overwhelmed whereby they are either made imbecil impotent or weak or the Spirit making faculty from the impotency of the Stomach and the other Viscera though not wholly ceasing to perform its duty yet does it so poorly and meanly that there is not a sufficient generation of Spirits daily made to support the humane frame in its due energy and strength For by these meanes the whole Sanguinous mass becomes polluted and filled with impurities and serosities which being therewith conveyed to the Brain made lax or loose as to its Pores by a long continuation of irregularities is easiely received there out of which impure Blood as there is a less proportion of Animal Spirits generated so are they not so sublime serene or subtil but more dull or cloudy by reason of the adhesion of the impure matter whereby they become uncapable of exerting in themselves the motive faculty 29. And in these cases arising from the defect or imbecility of the Animal Spirit we conclude the Spirits not only to be in fault but the Organs also generating and containing them made weak by the depraved Serosities or Gas of the Blood transmitted every where through the whole universal Body into the moving Fibres whereby it is reasonable to think that those few Spirits impure also derived from the Brain being disposed at length through the whole Genus Nervosum into the minutest Fibres and meeting there with that depraved Serositie or malign Gas of the Blood make the motive Faculty both more weak and trembling 30. And therefore as to an habitual Palsy or a Palsy generated from a previous long and habitual vitious course of Living this we say that whatsoever things do more than ordinarily vitiate the Blood or obstruct the Brain and its nervous Appendix excite an afflux of morbifick Particles or matter produce a Narcosis or stupefaction of the Spirits or impeeds their generating may be accounted as antecedent causes of a Paralysis In order to the producing of these causes are the disorders of the six Non-naturals insatiable eating immeasurable drinking Wine or other strong Liquors an idle and sedentary course of Life sleeping too much or unseasonably immoderate use of Venus too much loss of Blood too vehement evacuations either by Vomit or Stool a cold and moist Air Metalick and Narcotick Fumes stupefying Medicines excess of heat cold or moisture vehement and long Passions of the Mind c. 31. Hitherto of a Paralysis where motion is
a dram and half with Honey or syrup of Ground-pine make an Electuary Dose half an ounce or six drams in the Morning fasting and fasting three hours after it 89. Lozenges Take extract of Calamus Aromaticus two drams Oyl of Cinnamon of Cloves of Nutmegs of Rosemary and of Sage of each seven drops Species Diambrae a dram with white Sagar dissolved in compound Lavender water and boyled up to the consistency of Lozenges six ounces make LoZenges Or thus Take Species Diamoschi Dulcis a dram and half Species Diambrae two scruples Diamargariton Calidum half a dram raspings of Misletoe Elks hoof of each a scruple fragments of the five precious stones of each half a scruple Extracts of Galangal of Orrice and of Peony of each seven grains Cardamoms fifteen grains distilled Oyl of Nutmegs seven drops Sugar boyled to a height in Lilly-Convally-water mix and make Lozenges 80. Take pouder of the best Zedoary the lesser Galangal of each half a dram Species Diambrae one dram pouder of the seeds of Mustard Rocket Scurvy-grass Water-cresses of each half a dram make of them all a fine Pouder add to it of the best rectified Oyl of Amber half a dram and with white sugar dissolved in compound Peony-water and boyled up to the consistency of Lozenges six ounces make Lozenges according to Art weighing each half a dram Eat of them three or four twice a day drinking after them a taster of some of the aforegoing Antiparalytick waters or that of the Queen of Hungary 91. Take species Diambrae a dram distilled Oyls of Sage of Nutmegs and of Cloves of each four drops with Sugar boyled to a height in Rosemary-water two ounces make Lozenges or Rouls Or thus Take Oyls of Sage of Cinnamon of Cloves and of Nutmegs of each six drops with Sugar boyled to a height in Ground-pine-water two ounces make Lozenges or Rouls Or thus Take rectified Oyl of Amber fifteen drops Oyl of Cinnamon ten drops Essence of Sage one dram white Sugar half a pound boyled to a heigh in waters of Lavender-flowers and flowers of Lilly-convally make Lozenges or Rouls 92. Pilulae Take the pouder of Virginian Snake-root two drams of the lesser Galangal one dram of the Gummy extract of the remains of the distillation of Quercetans Elixir Vitae two drams flowers of sal Armoniack for the most pure Volatile Salt of Soot or Harts-horn one dram Balsam of Peru one scruple Balsamum Capivi enough to make a mass which make into small Pills rouling them in the species Diambrae Dose half a dram Evening and Morning Or thus Take Resin or Gum Guajaci three drams species Diambre one dram chymical Oyl of Guajacum purely and rightly rectified a dram and half Liquid Amber enough to make all up into a Mass which form into little Pills to be taken after the former manner Willis 93. These are the Prescripts of the best Authors We shall now lay down some more singular Specificks and so conclude this Head hasting withall speed to Topick applications And therefore in this case we commend the Waters and Spirits of Lavender compound of Castoreum of Peony compound of Earthworms magistral Aqua imperialis Aqua Vitae Mattheoli Bezoardica Mattheoli Aqua Cephalica Mylii Aqua Cardiaca Paracelsi Aqua Aromatica nost Anhaltina schroderi Cephalica Reinesij Antepileptica Vntzeri Aqua Magna Fioravanti Aqua Vitae aurea Langii Virtutum Reinesii the Apoplectick Water of Jacob Martin Fabers Epileptick Spirit of Vitriol Spirit of Harts-horn Spirit of Mans-skull Spirit of Rosemary compound carminative Spirit of Sylvius compound Spirit of Scurvy-Grass Spirit of Vrine Spirit of Juniper-berries Spirit of Rosemary and Savin Spiritus Paralyticus Spiritus Antepilepticus Apoplecticus Clossaei Spiritus Diapente Antidotum Salis Spiritus Salis Armoniaci Spiritus Vitrioli dulcis vulnerary Spirit of Sulphur chymical Oyls of Rosemary of Savin of Juniper-berries of Aniseed of Caraways of Cinnamon of Cloves of Nutmegs of Sassafras of Rhodium of Bay-berries of Turpentine and of Amber Balsamus Polychrestus Mynsichti Nervinum Schroderi Balsamum Vitae Bilgens Vitae magis compositum Paralyticum Horstii Clossaei Elixir Syncopticum Clossaei Vitae majus Quercetani Vitrioli Mynsichti Elixir Sulphuris Paralyticum Horstii Elixir Vitae nostrum Elixir Aurantiarum Baccarum Juniperi Castorei Lavendulae è Corticibus Limonium de Melissophyllo de Mentha Rosmarini de Mentha Radicis Serpentaria de Salvia Elixir Vitae rubrum Tinctura Castorei Antimonii Mynsichti Dia phoretica Paracelsi in Convulsionibus Mylii Paralysi Milii Succini Horstii Martis Mynsichti Cardiaca Argentea Extracts of Vipers of Gentian of Angelica of Acorus of Carduus Benedictus of Elecampane of Zedoary Diapeonias Mindereri Castorei Zwelferi Antepilepticum Zwelferi Antipestilentiale Zwelferi Aureum Mynsichti Pouder of Vipers Liquor Cephalicus Diaphoreticus Mynsichti Sal Argenti Succini volatile Tartari volatile Sal Vrinae Cranii humani de Cornu Cervi Armoniacum volatile volatile Viperarum Powers of Rosemary of Lavender of Sage of Savin of Penny-royal of Savory of Marjoram of Origanum of Limons of Oranges of Aniseeds of Caraways of Cloves of Nutmegs of Cinnamon of Sassafras of Juniper and Bay berries of Amber Powers of Virtues Powers of Vipâ—rs which last with its volatile Salt are superiour to all other things Mynsicht also his Tincture of Mars is a Medicament of no small account so also the dulcified Oyls of Sulphur Salt and Vitriol so made by a long digestion with the best rectified Spirit of Wine for at least three or four Months for these open Obstructions to a wonder and free the Passages of the animal Spirit In a Word the Powers and Elixirs of things transcend all other Forms of Medicaments for that by their neatness and exceeding Subtilty and Power of Penetration they do what no other kinds of Remedies can 94. We are now at length arrived to the Topick part of this Cure by which we also endeavour to recal the Heat and Spirits to the grieved Parts and these are either particular or general The particular Topicks are such as are applyed to the affected places as Frictions Cuppings Issues Setons Fomentations Oyls Balsams Oyntments Cataplasms Cere-Cloths Emplasters and Powers The general are Sudorificks as Hot-Houses Stoves Baths of which we have already spoken and Mercuriates externally applied by way of Unction c. and as we have taught in our Synopsis Medicinae Lib. 3. Cap. 32. Sect. 6. § 9. ad 17. to which we shall at this time refer you 95. Where there is age and Strength of body able to bear it you may use daily Frictions on the Parts affected with course warm Cloths but it ought to be done gently least the Heat and Spirits be not only attracted but also dissipated Moreover Frictions ought if with conveniency they can to be used before Fomentations Anointings Bathings c. for that thereby the Pores are before hand opened and prepared for the reception of the Vertues of the applyed Medicament 96. Somtimes also Sinapisms
take for many days the following Purgation Take Extract of Mechoacan compounded Diagridium Alhandal Cambogia of each one grain Pil. Rudii five grains make five Pills with two drops of the Oyl of Citrons It did operate five times 6. Inwardly I did exhibite four drops of the following Oyls every Morning in Broth Take Oyl of Rosemary-flowers four and twenty drops of Marjoram of Lavender of each six drops of Oranges four drops of Anise of Fennel of each eight drops mix them She took it in Rosemary-Wine 7. By these she had great profit but at length being seised with a Convulsion she dyed Grulingius Curat 7. Cent. 1. XXIV An Apoplexy in old Age. 1. This Disease somtimes happens in extream old Age or in Men in whom the vigor of the Senses is small through the Defect of the Spirits and because the continual defatigation of the Brain may occasion a cold Intemperature therefore the use of these Medicines may greatly comfort 2. Take the Spirit of the best and most pleasant Wine one pound and half to which put the leaves of Bawm the flowers of Lavender Lilly-Convally of Rosemary of Borrage of each one handful Grains of Paradice two drams Cubebs Cinnamon Nutmegs of each one dram Let them stand the Vessel being well closed that nothing may evaporate afterwards strain them out by pressing and let the expression be kept for use In Winter when the Air is colder every Month about the Conjunction of the Moon dip a peece of white Bread in half a dram of this Spirit and let him swallow it in the Morning sleeping a little thereafter 3. In Summer he may take of the Water of Lilly-Convally or Carduus Benedictus likewise about the new Moon one dram of the following Pouder Take white Amber and grind it on a marble Stâ—â—e with the Water of black Cherries to this Pouder add as much of Diarrhodon Abbatis 4. These two Medicines are profitable for they correct the humors and check the Vapours and remove the Obstruction As to Diet great Care must be had therefore all Meats must be shun'd which breed pituitous and flegmatick humors such as Fish Pot-Herbs things made of Milk and Meats fryed somtimes Pills may be taken of Alephanginae or Mastich or Aloes Rosata 5. It is most convenient also that the melancholy humor be evacuated and corrected by proper Medicines a better way of evacuating this humor cannot be than by the Hemorroids Fomentations also are to be applyed made of the Decoction of Mallows and Lin-seed and inwardly a scruple of Aloes Rosata is to be taken 6. This melancholy humor is to be contemperated by the use of the Extract of the Juyce of Bawm and Borrage and a spoonful of the following Syrup before Dinner or Supper may be taken 7. Take Syrup of the Juyce of Bawm three ounces of the Juyce of Borrage two ounces of the Peels of Citrons half an ounce the Species Aromatici Rosati one dram Diamoschi dulcis as much mix them and let it be given in a Glass for repressing the Vapours after Meat this Pouder may be taken 8. Take Coriander prepared one ounce choice Cinnamon two drams Mastich one scruple Mace half a scruple white Bread toasted three ounces white Sugar half a pound mix them and make a Pouder In the Morning the Person may take from a quarter of an ounce to half an ounce of the Confection with the Oyl of Anise the Oyl of Caraway Amber also a Confect of Diamoschi dulcis and Diambrae and somtimes Treacle and Mithridate if these things be followed great Benefit will accrew to the Person Crato apud Sholzium Cons 35. XXV Of an Apoplexy 1. The Disease of the Apoplexy is nothing else but an Obstruction in the Original of the Nerve or Brain whereby the Passages of the animal Spirits which give Motion to the whole Body are shut up and the Heart is hindred to distribute and diffuse the vital Spirits from whence there comes a Resolution of the whole Body and is deprived of Sense and Motion as the Heart of Respiration 2. The proper Note and Chararcteristicon of this affect is known by Respiration which according as is more or less suppressed the Danger is so much the greater or lesser 3. We must first consider from whence the animal Spirits are thus impeeded the causes are many and various yet they may be included under these four the first is the bad Temper of the Brain which does not presently invade for the Imbecility of the Brain and of the animal Faculties the Understanding and Memory will be felt long before as also a Numness Somnulency Anger Oblivion with a pain in the Head and Noise in the Ears 4. If the Apoplexy be expected to flow from that Fountain then it will be needful to strengthen the Brain and the Brain if possible is to be purged by the Nostrils moreover you may purge the Brain by an Apophlegmatismus every Morning the Mouth is to be washed by Sage-Water with Salt and you may use every day this Confect which will refresh the Spirit 5. Take Species Diambrae Species Diamoschi of each one dram Sugar dissolved in Lavender-Water make a confection in little Balls you may eat one of them every Morning and you may rub the Almonds of the Ears with Rosemary-Water let him often chew Rocket and Caraway seed 6. This Remedy will be greatly useful for an Apoplexy arising from a second cause to wit from the obstruction of the Brain by a gross and viscid Flegm in this case let him swallow the bigness of a Bean every day of Treacle and Mithridate 7. Aniversary Purgations will be useful as also dayly Frictions first in the Hands and Feet and then in the Back 8. A third cause proceeds from thick gross Vapours disturbing the Spirits for by bad Diet which generates those Vapours the Head is filled and the Spirits are corrupted and dissolv'd and this grievous Affect is generated also Drunkards and great Wine Bibbers are very obnoxious to this Disease 9. The Brain is preserved from thick Vapours by observing diligently a good Diet too much Sleep Banquetting and fumous Meats are to be avoided the seed of Caraway and Rowls made of the Oyl of Caraway and Anise are good for removing the Vapours and by washing of the Feet in the Morning and Frictions the Vapours are much diverted Care must be had that Crudities be not accumulated in the Stomach for which Ambergrise is good 10. A fourth cause is from the too great plenty of Blood or of Flegm or of Melancholy if from Blood then beware of such things as do much augment is a Vein must be opened and Cupping-Glasses affixed to diminish the excessive quantity of the Blood 11. But if from Flegm or Melaâ—choly then these humors must be purged by exhibiting Sena the Brain is to be strengthned the Nostrils are to be anointed with the Oyl of Sage and Rosemary-Water is to be drawn up through the Nostrils and the following Gargarism